[whatwg] HTMLMediaElement.volume

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Jun 1 18:03:22 PDT 2007


On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it be better if no INDEX_SIZE_ERR was raised but instead the 
> previous value was retained? For consistency with 
> CanvasRenderingContext2D.globalAlpha for instance. It's not really 
> important, but I think that some consistency between the various APIs 
> would be nice.

In general, actually, raising INDEX_SIZE_ERR is what the APIs do. So for 
consistency, volume is correct.

globalAlpha, though, is not. What do people think? Should we change the 
canvas globalAlpha attribute to raise an exception for out-of-range 
values? Any browser vendors have an opinion?

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