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Bug 28575 - Shouldn't `ping` be readonly?
Summary: Shouldn't `ping` be readonly?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#htmlanc...
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Reported: 2015-04-28 00:05 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-08-28 05:23 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-04-28 00:05:17 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#htmlanchorelement
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#htmlanchorelement
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Comment:
Shouldn't `ping` be readonly?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2015-05-05 21:40:07 UTC 
Why would it be readonly? Wouldn't that mean you couldn't set it (using the [PutForwards] facility)?
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2015-05-06 17:59:36 UTC 
No, in fact you have to use readonly to use [PutForwards].

> The [PutForwards] extended attribute must not be used on an attribute that is not read only.
http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#PutForwards
Comment 3 Anthony Ramine 2015-08-20 23:34:20 UTC 
Is there anything blocking the change here?
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-08-21 00:05:49 UTC 
(In reply to Anthony Ramine from comment #3)
> Is there anything blocking the change here?

I think there isn’t—it's just that right now the process for getting fixes made in the spec is bit slow.

So if this is blocking you on anything, I think the best strategy for the time being is to ask for feedback about in on #whatwg and/or on whatwg@whatwg.org, and then just proceed with what you need to do, based on whatever the prevailing agreement there seems to be from the people you discuss it with there.