Re: Selectors API naming

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:33:49 -0500, Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 1/26/07, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:05:13 -0500, Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Roughly speaking, the rationale was that nobody except Anne felt get was
>> good,
>> there was little support for match and strong resistance, and then wegot
>> getElementBySelectors as the only obvious choice for the single element
>> method -
>> which everyone except Anne was happy with.
>
> An 's' on the end too? This is the worst name for an API I have seen
> in a long time,

How about getElementByGroupOfSelectors (which is slightly more accurate)?

> and I agree with all of Hixie's comments on the
> process. This is not an effective way to make changes to the Web.

Sitting around waiting for some magical consensus to emerge where it just
clearly isn't is not an effective way to make changes either. It would be  
more
efficient to simply wait and see what Microsoft implements.

Since I have the reponsibility for getting this group to finish its work  
in a
particular timeframe, I made a decision to find some kind of resolution in  
line
with the process under which we are working. Which happens to offer the
opportunity to discuss with Microsoft in advance, and with various other
implementors, and see if they are prepared to agree to something.

Actually, I don't think the name is particularly elegant. Nor especially
horrible. But if it gets the spec published, rather than indefinitely  
extend the
last two months of having it sit around going nowhere, I can live with it.  
And
the process that led to it which as I have said will see it happily  
replaced if
a proposal is made that actually does show consensus).

cheers

Chaals

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