Re: Need Agreement on Terminology

Like I mentioned during TPAC, I think "user action" or "user command" best describe these events to me.

Moving the cursor to the left isn't so much of an user intention
since the user's intention is probably moving the cursor in order to delete, type, etc… some line of text.
I think the intention is more of an overarching theme / concept the user has in back of his/her head.

I personally like "command" a lot since what we're discussing here parallels a "command item" in Win32 API:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms647591(v=vs.85).aspx

It's also similar to "commands" in Metro UI:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465309.aspx

You've raised a concern that this might be confusing due to a similarly design pattern:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_pattern
But I really don't think this is an issue since people usually refer to "command objects",
not "command events", in this context.

- R. Niwa

On Nov 4, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Would Input Events be confusing because we already have those in DOM Events?
> 
> Travis, Ryosuke- you have both expressed a distaste for "Intention", can you elaborate on that here?
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: chaals@yandex-team.ru <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 10:15 AM
> To: Ben Peters; White, Jason J; Olli Pettay; public-editing-tf@w3.org; public-indie-ui@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Need Agreement on Terminology
> 
> 04.11.2014, 18:51, "Ben Peters" <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>:
>> The question really is should the events be the "Intention" of the user, the "Action" of the browser/site, or the "Command" itself?
> 
> They represent the intention of the user.
> 
> (And while I could argue with Olli over the use of device events, input events seems fine to me too).
> 
> cheers
> 
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