- From: João Eiras <joaoe@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:34:17 +0200
- To: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
> preInsert / postInsert - 9 / 10 > addBefore / addAfter - 9 / 8 > addPre / addPost - 6 / 7 (or preAdd / postAdd at the same length, or > preIns / postIns if we want to abbreviate) > > > The last pair especially is almost confusingly short, but at least they > are verbs. Names of operations should be verbs unless they are pure > getters IMO. Not only is it weird in code and documentation to have > mutators named by nouns, but it also makes it hard to talk about: > > Programmer A: It's easy, just before the foo node on the bar node. > Programmer B: wat > > The web platform has enough "wat" in it already, let's not add more. > > Regards, > Maciej Hi again. So, we have a consensus? Can the change be made please? I notice that there is already a bit of hype surrounding the methods, and they are being implemented, so would be good not to create yet another compatibility problem in the near future.
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