Re: drawSystemFocusRing and drawCustomFocusRing names are confusing.

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> I agree with jatinder. "drawFocus" suggests that it will always draw
> something, but that's wrong. The name "drawCustomFocusRing" is even worse
> since it never draws anything.
>
> I think for the method that actually draws, "drawFocusIfNeeded" would be
> good.
>
> For the other method, "needToDrawFocus" sounds good for the
> non-accessibility functionality. However, if the name ignores the
> accessibility side effects, we can expect authors to not set the correct
> path, since a path is not obviously needed. So I suggest we remove the
> version of the method that uses the current path, forcing authors to
> provide a Path parameter, and explain in prose what the Path parameter is
> for. Of course that would mean making this functionality depend on Path,
> but I think that's OK. This functionality seems less important than
> drawFocusIfNeeded. There is the possibility that authors will just supply a
> bogus Path anyway because they don't care about accessibility, but that's
> possible with any form of this API.
>

That sounds fine.
Let's rename 'drawSystemFocusRing' to 'drawFocusIfNeeded'.
'needToDrawFocus' can move to the l2 version of the spec.

Received on Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:13:40 UTC