- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:37:15 +0000 (UTC)
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
- Cc: w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
A couple of months ago it was pointed out that HTML5's <dialog> and ARIA's "dialog" role are confusingly similar in name. We (the HTML5 community) had previously tried to find a better name for <dialog> to avoid this confusion, and I just went through a series of proposals again trying to find a better name, but I haven't been able to find a good alternative. Is there any chance I could convince the you to rename the ARIA role "dialog" to something more explicitly about dialog boxes instead? e.g. "dialogbox" or "dialogwindow". That would be of great help in keeping the vocabularies free of conflicts. For background, this thread started here: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/help-whatwg.org/2008-November/000151.html Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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