Re: Selectors API naming

As do I.  Descriptive names are useful.

Regards-
-Doug

Jon Ferraiolo wrote:
> I agree with the Microsoft folks on this thread.
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> Jon
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> Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai@us.ibm.com>
> Web Architect, Emerging Technologies
> IBM, Menlo Park, CA
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> 1. Other Issues.
> It'd be great to have more detail and scenario on NSResolver. It appears to
> allow elements within the document to have different prefixes than things
> in the style sheet. For example if we map html as the prefix for XHTML in
> our document then we’d write it like:
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> <html:table><html:tr><html:td></html:td></html:tr></html:table>
> But then we can write a selector such as:
>              “h|table > h|tr > h|td”
> With a NSResolver that maps h to the same namespace as the html in the
> primary document. This seems potentially confusing.
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> As I mentioned previously a more complete example of staticNodeList usage
> would also be appreciated.
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> 2. Naming
> getElementBySelector/getElementsBySelector is the only proposal we think is
> acceptable. match/matchAll is not appropriate for a specific DOM method and
> matchSelector/matchAllSelectors isn't really much of an improvement.
> I'm concerned the group appears to believe naming is not important based on
> the belief that there is no such thing as the perfect name. While it is
> probably true that there is no such thing as a perfect name we have to
> think about the lives of web developers and the challenges they face. For
> these people consistent naming helps them find their way around the APIs
> and have some idea of what to expect from them. Members of this group may
> be fine with naming something xabcdexy() but I'm not sure that this group
> is really representative of the average web developer.
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> I'm more than familiar with "shipping is a feature" :) but shipping the
> right thing at the right quality level is also important. We do believe the
> functionality outlined in this spec is useful and want it to move forward
> as quickly as it can. However we also want to ensure it is clear, easy to
> use and easy to understand.
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> Thanks
> -Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:chaals@opera.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:52 AM
> To: Web API public
> Cc: Chris Wilson; Dave Massy; Anne van Kesteren
> Subject: Re: Selectors API naming
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> OK folks,
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> Let's get this in perspective. We are trying to publish this document as a
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> last call, and get on with the dozen other documents we are meant to get
> done in the next year. So I have two questions I would like answers on:
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> 1. Does anyone see any other issue in the current draft that should be
> fixed?
> 2. For the following options, do you consider the names "fine", "not great
> 
> but acceptable", or "unacceptable"?
>       getElementBySelector/getElementsBySelector
>       match/matchAll
>       matchSelector/matchAllSelectors
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>     If and Only If you consider all 3 names are so bad as to be
> unacceptable, please propose an alternative.
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> While getting naming perfect is a great thing, I don't know of it ever
> being done before. "Shipping is a feature", as a friend who was a product
> manager at a Redmond-based software company used to remind me, and if we
> can't get nomenclative perfection then I suggest we at least enhance the
> "shipping" side of our feature list...
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chaals (wearing a slightly ill-fitting chair's hat)
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