- From: Zachary Carter <zack.carter@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 22:43:14 -0400
FWIW, in my first encounter with HTML5 <dialog> I assumed it meant a dialog box. This might be due to my experience with the <dialog> element in XUL[1], which is used for that. Also, dialog boxes are generally more common from my browsing experience, so I hadn't considered the alternative usage at first. [1]http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL:dialog On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008, Ernest Cline wrote: > > > > > I agree that the word "discourse" is more formal than "dialog", but it > > does cover both formal and informal speech unlike some other thesaurus > > inspired possibilities such as "colloquy" or "chat". > > Sure, I'm just reluctanct to use an element name that is too formal, as > (for better or worse) that makes the language sound stilted. > > > > > It does have the advantage over dialog of avoiding the spelling issue > > and the computer term issue. If those issues end up being judged > > sufficient to make <dialog/> undesirable, then <discourse/> seems to me > > to be the best alternative available among English words. Of course, if > > words were abandoned altogether <d/> would also be a possibility. > > <d> is probably too short for an element that won't be used that much. > > Unless we get more evidence that the confusion with dialog boxes is a real > blocker to adoption, I'm going to assume that <dialog> is our best option. > > > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -- Zach Carter
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