- From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:09:46 +0000
- To: public-sysapps@w3.org
On 15/02/13 09:04, Marcos Caceres wrote: > But when there are only two choices, so does its absence. The fact that someone has pasted in a string "respectTimezone" or "ignoreTimezone" does not mean he or she actually understands what that means in practice. If you really wanted to avoid this problem and actually make this more intuitive, you could simply separate Alarms (datetime based) and Timers (countdown based). I'm not sure if that would solve anything given that most developers might just think they want an Alarm instead of a Timer for a calendar event for example. > Yeah, that's because I got confused about what they mean! And here in lies the problem: "respectTimezone" can be easily misinterpreted as "ignoreTimezone", because it can be understood as: "if I say, 9am, I mean 9am wherever I am right now, not the time zone in which I set it - so respect the timezone I'm in as I move!". While "ignoreTimezone" could be interpreted to mean, "ignore the timezone information, I just want to sleep 7 hours". In any case, I hope it helps illustrate the point that simply forcing developers to paste in some strings is not really going to help avoid confusion. I agree that the namings are unlikely perfect but we didn't find anything better. I think no one would object to go for a better naming if one is proposed. -- Mounir
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