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- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:18:42 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14706 Summary: The plural nature of the name for the <details> tag (the only tag in the spec with a name which takes a plural form) presents a bit of a problem for automation software (such as selenium and watir) which allows the creation of collections of tags with som Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: The plural nature of the name for the <details> tag (the only tag in the spec with a name which takes a plural form) presents a bit of a problem for automation software (such as selenium and watir) which allows the creation of collections of tags with some common attribute. The convention for this has been to create such collections via a method with a plurel form of the normally singular element tag names. e.g. the method to return a single table row object is .tr, while the method to return a collection of such objects is .trs. This paradigm breaks when you encounter the <details> tag which is already plural, and the english language has no notion or convention to create a plural form of something that is already plural. A minor concern in the grand scheme of things, but still, why have this one tag name be an exception to the format taken for all the others? Why not use <detail> instead? Posted from: 76.104.251.42 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2 -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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