885275 - Support to ByteString in the WebIDL bindings

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Mozilla Platform, defect, P5)

Description

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: 24 Branch
 Technical Contact: [e-mail]

:: Details

We need to add information about ByteString binding

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is basically a type that treats JS strings as sequences of numbers in the range 0-255.  It's only used for legacy things like XMLHttpRequest.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I'm wontfixing this.

We don't document the standard bindings ( http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#idl-ByteString ), though we of course use them to translate the WebIDL of a feature in docs :-)

Feel free to open specific bugs error where a ByteString is in the WebIDL and not documented adequately in MDN.

Comment 3

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Note that this was specifically about the Mozilla-internal documentation of our WebIDL bindings support: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/WebIDL_bindings>. If this shouldn't be on MDN, what's a better location?

The bug seems to be fixed, though: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/WebIDL_bindings#ByteString>.

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

It looks that I missed this part of the document. My bad. This was a valid bug and it is indeed fixed.