> > Starting shortening member names can open the Pandora > box. What about getElementsByTagName, querySelector etc.? I > think at this point of time it is better to avoid such an > initiative. > > Because? > And why at this point in time? To my knowledge the group is trying to advance the DOM-Events specification to the next level of acceptance. > Will it become okay next week? I am not right person to be asked this question. > We collectively made some pretty bad naming decisions in > the past, fixing them is both harmless and useful. Yes, an example of the recent "bad naming decision": querySelectorAll? Robin, I think proper naming as well as good API design indeed are highly important to the developer productivity. The length of the name to be typed in - hardly. Regards, Sergey/Received on Friday, 28 August 2009 09:40:31 GMT
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