- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:40:12 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
- Cc: Matt Falkenhagen <falken@chromium.org>, whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > On Apr 22, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > The current naming is based on window.showModalDialog() and > > window.close(). I agree the naming is weird, but being consistent is > > probably going to be more helpful on the long run. > > But that's because we have window.open but not an equivalent of > window.close for window.showModalDialog, right? > > It seems more consistent to use show/hide or open/close as Matt > suggested. Consistent with what? We have window.open()/window.close, and window.showModalDialog()/window.close(). We also have document.open()/document.close(), and so on (EventSource, etc). I suppose we could change show() to open(), but then we'd be inconsistent with showModalDialog() for openModal()... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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