- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:12:35 -0500
- To: "Simon Pieters" <zcorpan@gmail.com>, João Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:52:09 -0500, Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com> wrote: > A way to reduce the number of typos might be to drop the trailing "s" > from both method names. It's equally clear what it does IMHO. We could do that. > Of the two getElementListBySelector and getElementsBySelector, thepeople > I've spoken to seem to prefer getElementsBySelector. OK. In order to make that useful feedback, can you say how many people and who they are? With comments like this, it is hard to know if you are one of five people all saying the same thing as they talk to each other, or someone representing some process that had 3% of professional Web Developers in Russia who decided to take a binding vote on their preferred outcome... >> The reason for GetElementListBySelectors and not getElementsBySelectors >> was to make it moderately clear and give people a better chance of >> debugging quickly. > > Although if API consistency is desireable then "getElementListBy..." > doesn't seem to appear anywhere as far as I can tell. Obviously it is a change. My feeling is that it isn't as radical a change as the alternatives proposed, and that the clear visual difference was valuable enough to justify it. Your mileage may vary, of course. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com
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