RE: Rename "Web Alarms API" to "Task Scheduler"

+1 to name change!

Regards,
Suresh

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mounir Lamouri [mailto:mounir@lamouri.fr]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:01 AM
>To: public-sysapps@w3.org
>Subject: Rename "Web Alarms API" to "Task Scheduler"
>
>Hi,
>
>I would like to start a few discussions regarding the outstanding issues we
>currently have with the Alarm API. To keep things simpler, I will restrict every
>thread to one topic.
>
>First of all, we should change the name of this specification. I think that
>everybody will agree that the name is terrible, doesn't reflect what we want
>to do and let people believe it is trying to do things it isn't really designed for.
>
>To start the discussion, I would like to propose to rename the specification
>"Task Scheduler". Task is unfortunately used in other specifications like HTML
>[1] but the naming isn't too overloaded and the closest name I can think of
>would be "event" which is way too much used in the Web Platform.
>
>If the specification is renamed "Task Scheduler", I think we should rename the
>"Alarm" interface "ScheduledTask".
>
>Any thoughts on this?
>
>[1]
>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-

>work/multipage/webappapis.html#event-loops
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Mounir


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Received on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:03:58 UTC