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Bug 22041 - [HTML]: Constants can't be strings
Summary: [HTML]: Constants can't be strings
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Robin Berjon
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: CR
Depends on: 21591
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Reported: 2013-05-15 12:43 UTC by Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Modified: 2013-07-12 22:26 UTC (History)
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Description Dominique Hazael-Massieux 2013-05-15 12:43:46 UTC 
"const DOMString product = "Gecko"; // for historical reasons"

WebIDL doesn't allow string constants; this should presumably be a readonly DOMstring instead.
Comment 1 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2013-07-12 22:26:01 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: Swapped for readonly attribute.

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/aa8091f94546ca5500301053e4ea167d85891ae8