- From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:13:13 +0200
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- CC: Jacob Rossi <jrossi@microsoft.com>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
On 12/30/2010 06:10 AM, Doug Schepers wrote: > Hi, Jacob- > > Jacob Rossi wrote (on 12/28/10 11:01 AM): >> >> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Doug Schepers wrote: >> >>> I took the liberty of renaming 'inputLocale' to 'locale', since >>> most developers prefer shorter, nonCamelCased names, and it >>> seems equally descriptive. >> >> I think we had decided on inputLocale to be consistent with the >> naming of inputMethod. :-) > > We had discussed it, but I don't recall a specific resolution either > way. I don't consider consistency with 'inputMethod' as important as > ease of use, since they aren't particularly related. I'm pretty sure we agreed to have inputLocale. And the reason was, I think, that the 'locale' refers to the way the input was entered, not to the locale of the data in the event. -Olli > > Also, 'inputMethod' is only on Text events, while 'locale' is on several > different interfaces. > > Regards- > -Doug Schepers > W3C Team Contact, SVG, WebApps, and Web Events WGs > >
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