Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
There are strong ties, in the sense that the said API would be exposing a readyState property (similar to XMLHttpRequest, HTMLMedia, etc).
For the WebSocket API in particular (http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/#the-websocket-interface), I would note that readyState is an unsigned short, while binaryType is a string enumeration. I.e., there seems to have been a conscious decision to use the former in spite of the preference for things like the latter (at least just from looking at the IDL... I wasn't involved, so I don't know the history).
