Re: R: Need Agreement on Terminology

On 11/04/2014 09:51 AM, Fabio Paternò wrote:
> You could consider the term “task event”
I'd definitely avoid using word 'task', since 'task' has already its reserved meaning in the web platform.


-Olli



to indicate an event that aims to support the accomplishment of a given logical user activity independent of
> the device actually used for it,
>
> Best
>
> Fabio
>
> *Da:*Ben Peters [mailto:Ben.Peters@microsoft.com]
> *Inviato:* martedì 4 novembre 2014 01:03
> *A:* public-editing-tf@w3.org; public-indie-ui@w3.org
> *Oggetto:* Need Agreement on Terminology
>
> We need to decide what will be the terminology for “Intentions”. So far, I have been calling mouse, keyboard, etc input “Actions” and their events
> “Action Events”. What a user is trying to do with them is an “Intention” and their events are “Intention Events”. There has been considerable pushback
> though due to “Web Intents” that share the same name and haven’t moved forward recently. So what are your thoughts? We can potentially change “Action
> Events” to “Device Events”, and change “Intention Events” to either “Command Events” or “Action Events”. We need to decide though because it’s getting
> confusingJ
>
> Options for Mouse/Keyboard/Touch/Pointer Term:
>
> ·Action Event: refers to User’s Action.
>
> ·Device Event: refers to the idea that these are only available on certain devices, which is why we want to discourage their direct use. Might sound
> like something lower level than javascript (Windows Messages, for instance)
>
> Options for beforeInput, beforeSelectionChange Term:
>
> ·Intention Event: referes to User’s Intention. Possiblly overloaded by Web Intents.
>
> ·Action Event: refers to the Browser/Site Action. Sounds somewhat generic.
>
> ·Command Event: refers to the data in the event itself. We are not exactly following the Command design pattern, so this might be slightly confusing too.
>
> Please provide your thoughts. Thanks!
>
> https://github.com/w3c/editing-explainer/issues/7
>
> Ben
>

Received on Tuesday, 4 November 2014 09:36:16 UTC