On 11/10/2010 03:00 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
So you prefer that .responseType take a string value as opposed to an
integer enum value? Darin Fisher had the idea that introspection of the
supported values would be easier as an enum.
Yes, I think using an enum would be *extremely* verbose, particularly
given this particular API's name. I don't want to see or type code
like:
myXHR.responseType = XMLHttpResponse.RESPONSETYPE_ARRAYBUFFER;
This is much better:
myXHR.responseType = "arraybuffer";
~TJ
You can have consise and introspectable values if the verbose constants
have string values instead of integers, of course.
David
