I agree. Intentional web events have been worked on in the W3C for years
with no real successful delivery. These were there well before Android
looked at "intentional" events and I believe Raman was involved with the
Web intentional events effort from Google.
My recommendation is that we use the term and coordinate with the existing
Web Events effort. There goal has been to produce intentional events
anyway.
Part of the success of any technical effort is user consumption. When you
say intentional events you immediately know what the objective of the work
is much the same way that we know "Word" is a word processor.
We might shorten the name to "Intent" Events.
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
From: "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>
To: Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>, Richard
Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
Cc: "chaals@yandex-team.ru" <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, Olli Pettay
<olli@pettay.fi>, "public-editing-tf@w3.org"
<public-editing-tf@w3.org>, "public-indie-ui@w3.org"
<public-indie-ui@w3.org>, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>,
Travis Leithead <travis.leithead@microsoft.com>
Date: 11/04/2014 04:29 PM
Subject: RE: Need Agreement on Terminology
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Peters [mailto:Ben.Peters@microsoft.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 3:51 PM
>Two reasons some people don't like "Intentions":
>
>* http://www.w3.org/TR/web-intents/
>
>*
>http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html
>
Neither of them is a good reason to avoid the term, though. I don't think
confusion is likely because "intention event" is a unique phrase which can
have a defined meaning in the context of specifications. The description
also seems apt: what these events capture is the user's intention or
purpose in performing the action that causes the events to be dispatched.
Any proposed terminology will have its detractors. It is important to
define it clearly and use it consistently.
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