Re: click vs activate from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-07-23 (public-svg-wg@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:36:11 -0700
To: "Smailus, Thomas O" <Thomas.O.Smailus@boeing.com>
Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, "public-svg-wg@w3.org" <public-svg-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDD+R7GnypKHLcwkvJD=DrZFm+rU5CZi1kNy8QKOmhzgaA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Smailus, Thomas O
<Thomas.O.Smailus@boeing.com> wrote:
> I’d go with ‘activate’ over click, because in, say a touchscreen interface, the tap event would be the equivalent to the click event.
>
> ‘activate’ seems more generic.

'click' is, in practice, a generic activation event.  The legacy name
is unfortunate, but that's all.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 23 July 2013 22:36:58 UTC