- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:35:07 +0100
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, www-style@w3.org
* Robert O'Callahan wrote: >On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > >> Why is the TextRectangle called thusly? Wouldn't, say, ClientRectangle >> be a better name? > >Because that's what IE calls it. ClientRectangle would be better, but would >it be better enough to bother changing to it? As far as I can tell, the name occurs only in the documentation. The interfaces are actually called IHTMLRect and IHTMLRectCollection if you use the API from, say, C++, and Internet Explorer generally does not expose either interface name in JavaScript in an important way, so I don't think the existing naming matters. As I understand it, the interface is used in several places that do not deal with text at all, so I find this name rather confusing. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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