Re: <dialog> and the from William Loughborough on 2009-01-28 (public-pfwg-comments@w3.org from January to March 2009)

From: William Loughborough <wloughborough@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:08:01 -0800
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <1e3451610901271908r303f5707q8a1f9095e38e468f@mail.gmail.com>

How about if I convince you to rename HTML5's <dialog> something more
obscure like <harold>? It's just a string of symbols.

Love.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

>
> A couple of months ago it was pointed out that HTML5's <dialog> and ARIA's
> "dialog" role are confusingly similar in name.
>
> Is there any chance I could convince the you to rename the ARIA role
> "dialog" to something more explicitly about dialog boxes instead? e.g.
> "dialogbox" or "dialogwindow".
>

Received on Wednesday, 28 January 2009 03:08:46 UTC