> On Jun 10, 2017, at 3:41 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 9, 2017, at 10:08 PM, Chris Dumez <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 9, 2017, at 11:47 AM, Sam Weinig <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 2, 2017, at 11:32 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Chris Dumez <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> No, I do not believe WebKit supports ReflectOnly and this is not standard
>>>>> IDL either.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The way to do it in WebKit would be to use a regular DOMString attribute, 
>>>>> as
>>>>> in the specification and implement this logic in the c++ getter for this
>>>>> attribute. See HTMLElement::dir() for an example.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We could also consider adding support for something like ReflectOnly in 
>>>>> our
>>>>> bindings generator considering that this seems to be used quite a bit in 
>>>>> the
>>>>> HTML specification and it would decrease code complexity a little.
>>>>> I’d actually be in favor of that.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd suggest other names like "ReflectEnum" or even "Reflect<EnumType>"
>>>> where EnumType is the name of enum that defines the list of values.
>>>> 
>>>> "ReflectOnly" doesn't tell us on what "only" applies. If I didn't know
>>>> the context, it sounds like something that does less work than regular
>>>> "Reflect”.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don’t see a good reason to complicate the bindings until this becomes 
>>> more common place.  For now, I would just implement HTMLLinkElement::as() 
>>> to behave as you want and leave the IDL unannotated, and we can revisit it 
>>> at a later time.
>> 
>> As I said, this is already used in quite a few places in the HTML spec:
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-dir 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-dir>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-link-as 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-link-as>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-link-referrerpolicy 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-link-referrerpolicy>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-link-updateviacache 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-link-updateviacache>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-a-referrerpolicy 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-a-referrerpolicy>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-img-referrerpolicy 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-img-referrerpolicy>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-iframe-referrerpolicy 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-iframe-referrerpolicy>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-track-kind 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-track-kind>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-media-preload 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-media-preload>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-area-referrerpolicy 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-area-referrerpolicy>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-th-scope 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-th-scope>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-form-autocomplete 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-form-autocomplete>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-input-type 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-input-type>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-input-inputmode 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-input-inputmode>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-button-type 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-button-type>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-textarea-inputmode 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-textarea-inputmode>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-fs-method 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-fs-method>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-fs-enctype 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-fs-enctype>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-fs-formenctype 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-fs-formenctype>
>> - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-fs-formmethod 
>> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-fs-formmethod>
>> 
>> Having a per-standard implementation in the bindings would likely be better 
>> than many potentially non-compliant ones.
> 

That is quite an imposing list, I rescind my objection.

> The HTML spec's name for this concept, "limited to only known values" is 
> really clear and better than "only" or "enum". I wonder if we could make a 
> name based on this, such as
> 
> ReflectLimitedToKnownValues
> ReflectOnlyKnownValues
> ReflectKnownValues
> ReflectLimited
> 
> (The last of this might be too vague.)

I’d prefer ReflectLimitedToKnownValues.

- Sam

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