[ContactsAPI][name] Re: Contacts API and W3C SysApps

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:41 AM, EDUARDO FULLEA CARRERA <efc@tid.es> wrote:
> [...]
>
> And a couple of questions:
>         -is 'name' in FFOS API equivalent to 'displayname' in Pick Contacts?

'name' is one of the rare renamings in the ContactsAPI, simply because
experience has shown 'fn' causes more confusion than understanding
(lots of experience with this with microformats) - which ironically
provides the only known counter-example to the anglo-renaming
anti-pattern.

It turned out that nearly everyone who starts with vCard over the
years as the basis of their data model, *does* rename "fn" and happen
to nearly always rename it "name". This is in contrast to all other
property renamings which have been historically divergent and thus
undesirable.

I have no idea why Pick Contacts chose 'displayname'.

Thanks,

Tantek

Received on Monday, 8 April 2013 23:52:19 UTC