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Bug 24381 - HTMLMediaElement.setMediaKeys() appears superfluous
Summary: HTMLMediaElement.setMediaKeys() appears superfluous
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 20337
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Encrypted Media Extensions (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adrian Bateman [MSFT]
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2014-01-24 09:50 UTC by Philip Jägenstedt
Modified: 2014-02-18 16:44 UTC (History)
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Description Philip Jägenstedt 2014-01-24 09:50:40 UTC 
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media.html#dom-setmediakeys

The mediaKeys attribute could be made writable instead. That setting is not "trivial" or that it may throw an exception is not in itself reason to have a setter function, an IDL attribute setter can do the same thing.

See HTMLMediaElement.controller for an analogous situation:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html#dom-media-controller

Here the getter is trivial but the setter does all kinds of things.
Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2014-01-26 17:04:00 UTC 
If a change is being made anyway, I'd also suggest naming the IDL attribute just keys. MediaError is error, MediaControls is controls and MediaKeys is... mediaKeys.
Comment 2 Adrian Bateman [MSFT] 2014-02-18 16:44:09 UTC 
We discussed this a long time ago and concluded that we wanted a method. I'm not sure anything has changed to make us reconsider this. Clearly this is mostly subjective and we decided in 2012 to use a method. See bug 20337.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20337 ***