- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:59:38 +0100
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "Dave Massy" <Dave.Massy@microsoft.com>, "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:58:03 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > My only concern here is that we avoid the mistake that was made with > getElementsByTagName and getElementById -- the names should be easy to > type and short. I honestly think that if the one-item method is shorter > than about 6 or 7 characters, then we've made a mistake. You mean longer than? > So I think "matchSelector" is too long. I think "matchSingle" is too > long. I think "select" and "match" are fine. I'd love to use "select"... > It doesn't matter what the words actually are. I think "aaaaa" is fine > too (though it wouldn't be my first choice). As Maciej points out, we > just have to make sure we don't pick a name that makes everyone just > alias the > method to $ or $$ or something equivalent. Yeah, I agree with this. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
Received on Friday, 15 December 2006 11:00:07 UTC