On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Dave Massy wrote: > > We'd really like to see naming to be meaningful for this and all APIs. > The goal should be to have a DOM that holds together as one, and > therefore the names matter – they need to seem like one > intelligently-designed API. Generic names such as select() and match() > don't help anyone unless they are for performing generic operations. To > suggest that names don't matter and "aaaaa" is fine is just wrong in our > opinion. We need to have an API set that people can read and understand > without having to go to reference material all the time to ask > themselves "Hmm. Now what does select() do in this particular > situation?". Then we should switch to Chinese for method names. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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