- From: Sergey Ilinsky <castonet@yahoo.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:39:48 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Cc: Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
> > Starting shortening member names can open the Pandora
> box. What about getElementsByTagName, querySelector etc.? I
> think at this point of time it is better to avoid such an
> initiative.
>
> Because?
> And why at this point in time?
To my knowledge the group is trying to advance the DOM-Events specification to the next level of acceptance.
> Will it become okay next week?
I am not right person to be asked this question.
> We collectively made some pretty bad naming decisions in
> the past, fixing them is both harmless and useful.
Yes, an example of the recent "bad naming decision": querySelectorAll?
Robin, I think proper naming as well as good API design indeed are highly important to the developer productivity. The length of the name to be typed in - hardly.
Regards,
Sergey/
Received on Friday, 28 August 2009 09:40:31 UTC