On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Rik Cabanier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Rik Cabanier <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I think that all enumerated DOMStrings in CanvasDrawingStyles should >> > move >> > to enums. This seems cleaner and have no compatibility issues. >> > However, if we keep them as DOMStrings, I agree that textDecoration >> > should >> > be one too. >> >> If they're trying to take on the value of CSS properties, they should >> absolutely *not* be enums. DOMStrings are the correct data type for >> that. > > Why is that? There's no difference to an author.
There is, the moment you have a multi-keyword value. ^_^ (Also, it lets you more easily just defer to CSS for the interpretation of the property, rather than having to manually update the enum when we add new values.) ~TJ
