Re: [XMLHttpRequest] readyState values should be available as named constants of the XMLHttpRequest constructor

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:23:20 +0100, Geoffrey Garen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:
I would like to suggest making the canonical readyState values available  
as named constants of the XMLHttpRequest constructor, like so

      0 UninitializedReadyState
      1 OpenReadyState
      2 SentReadyState
      3 ReceivingReadyState
      4 LoadedReadyState

This code

      if (request.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.OpenReadyState) { ... }

is more readable to me that this code

      if (request.readyState == 1) { ... }

which uses a magic number. The DOM 3 APIs tend to use named constants  
like this.

Some initial drafts used to have this and it was removed because of  
comments, iirc, from Maciej among other people. If enough authors and  
implementors support this idea though I suppose we can reconsider that.  
Anyone?


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