- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:14:41 -0700
- To: Chris Prince <chris.prince@gmail.com>
- Cc: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, "arun@mozilla.com" <arun@mozilla.com>, Jian Li <jianli@chromium.org>, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com>, Dmitry Titov <dimich@chromium.org>, Michael Nordman <michaeln@google.com>, David Levin <levin@google.com>, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Chris Prince <chris.prince@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 1. Most people that I talk to dislike the name Blob, much less having >>> it spread to things like BlobReader. > > I could maybe understand this if "blob" were a new term we were > inventing. But it's not. It's a well-known computer science concept. > It seems worse to try and coin a totally new name for "opaque chunk > of data". > > FWIW, "most people" hating the name blob seems like a stretch, as it > has not been my experience. But maybe we run in different circles. I have already enumerated in numerous emails why I think "File" is better than "Blob", at least in some contexts. Last time in [1]. You seem to have a different experience with regards to item 1 in that list, however items 2 through 4 still applies and so I don't see a reason to change my conclusion. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010JulSep/0637.html / Jonas
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