[whatwg] Proposal: createImageBitmap should return a "Promise" instead of using a callback

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> There's really no consistency here anyway, and the
>> "Interface.create()" idiom is pretty easy and nice.
>>
>> I wonder - perhaps we can call the function "new"?  Dunno which name is
>> better.
>
> Can I ask that you steer clear of that? There has been discussion of
> possibly providing static .new() on built-ins that produce instances without
> new operator. I dont know where that stands, but of course it wouldn't be
> revisited until ES7. It would be nice if that wasn't DOA due to
> web-breakage.

I suspect it was those half-remembered discussions that tickled my
brain and caused me to suggest it.  No problem avoiding it - we can
just use .create().

~TJ