- From: Hsin-Yi Tsai <htsai@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 10:27:37 +0800
- To: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- CC: "public-sysapps@w3.org" <public-sysapps@w3.org>
+ 1 to renaming On 2013年05月16日 00:01, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > 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 > -- Hsin-Yi Tsai 蔡欣宜 Mozilla Taiwan T: +886-2-87861100 ext:312 htsai@mozilla.com
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