Hi.
This does make sense, though there are a few issues:
1. This creates inconsistency between fetching all attributes at once
and fetching a single attribute. Maybe this isn't important; I'm not sure.
2. Most of the integer attributes aren't strictly integers across the
spec and various implementations. For example, Firefox seems to provide
units in px, but I'm pretty sure the spec says mm.
As for creating extra work for implementers, even in C++, working with
basic VARIANTs isn't too difficult. In some ways, parsing strings is
probably harder.
Jamie
On 8/09/2012 10:38 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
Hi Alex, At least from the perspective of the spec I don't have time to
make this change, i.e. I think it would take quite a bit of time for me
to specify which VARIANT type is returned for each of the attributes in
the spec. Some else could pick up that work though. Updating the method
from BSTR to VARIANT would be easy enough though. Is this also extra
work for the implementers? -Pete
On 9/7/12 7:20 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
Hi. Since we are going to introduce a method that allows to fetch
object attribute by name then it should be nice if we are able to
return typed value. For example, if the AT wants a margin-top object
attribute then the server could return an integer.
Thank you.
Alex.
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