- From: James Robinson <jamesr@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:22:08 -0800
- To: "Karen Anderson (IE)" <Karen.Anderson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "public-web-perf@w3.org" <public-web-perf@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAD73mdJLxU6nteX81uZm8xPv9H1jcuV4EBKNRJLr30TBmKw=3g@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks for the feedback. I've pushed https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/rev/435e89478579 to the editor's draft to rename from cancelRequestAnimationFrame() to cancelAnimationFrame(). You can see the version of the spec with this change here: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/435e89478579/specs/RequestAnimationFrame/Overview.html. I expect to update the WebKit vendor-prefixed implementation soon to reflect this change. - James On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Karen Anderson (IE) < Karen.Anderson@microsoft.com> wrote: > I like cancelAnimationFrame too, or some other variety where we don’t > use “request” as part of the cancel function. This will align better with > the existing naming convention of timers which use [set|clear]API. I am > not sure I have a better “cancel” name either. Other options I came up > with are abort or dismiss, or even cancel as WebDevs are already used to > that name.**** > > ** ** > > -Karen**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* James Robinson [mailto:jamesr@google.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 06, 2011 9:59 PM > *To:* Boris Zbarsky > *Cc:* public-web-perf@w3.org > *Subject:* Re: [RequestAnimationFrame] cancelRequestAnimationFrame is an > odd name**** > > ** ** > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:*** > * > > The name is a bit odd, if only because it's not really symmetric with > requestAnimationFrame. It took me a bit of staring at it to understand > what it might actually mean. > > Would it make more sense to call this cancelAnimationFrame? Or if we want > to emphasize that only one request is being canceled, perhaps > cancelAnimationFrameRequest?**** > > ** ** > > Either sound fine to me. The goal is to attempt some sort of symmetry > with setTimeout/clearTimeout and setInterval/clearInterval. I'm not sure > if "request"/"cancel" are an ideal pair but I didn't come up with the > "request" bit in the first place :).**** > > ** ** > > I think cancelAnimationFrame() would be a solid improvement on the status > quo. Does anyone object to this name? If not I'll make an edit later this > week. These names are all so long and unwieldy that I'm afraid all > libraries and authors will alias them anyway but that ship may have sailed. > **** > > ** ** > > - James**** > > > > -Boris > > **** > > ** ** >
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