- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:01:39 -0700
- To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, Andrew Dupont <w3@andrewdupont.net>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Your naming is inconsistent. Merging with the other linked thread, we >> >> have "CSSRect", "Quad", and "DOMPoint". You seem to have renamed the >> >> last one to "CSSPoint" in this email, which helps, but I'm still left >> >> wondering why it's not "CSSQuad". (I kinda liked DOM as the prefix >> >> for all of them, on the assumption that these things'll be useful for >> >> more than just CSS. Maybe we could divorce it further from "where >> >> it's specced" notions and call them LayoutPoint/Rect/Quad? I'd like a >> >> name that doesn't have much friction with using these in a 3d geometry >> >> library.) >> > >> > We also need to consider the Matrix work: >> > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/FXTF/raw-file/tip/matrix/index.html >> > >> > I think if we're going to use any prefix, we should use the same prefix >> > for >> > Point, Rect, Quad and Matrix. I'm afraid to arrogate those names as-is. >> > Either DOM or CSS would work for me. Blink has already got an >> > implementation >> > of CSSMatrix so I think we may as well go with the "CSS" prefix. Yes, >> > it's >> > useful for more than just CSS, but that doesn't bother me. >> >> Note that Dirk's the maintainer of that code, and he's planning to >> rename the interface, I think to TransformMatrix. That prefix isn't >> good for point/rect/quad, though. > > > Dirk and I preferred that the class is named CSSMatrix but the CSS WG didn't > like it so wanted to rename it. > If we're prefixing the other classes with 'DOM', maybe we should do it for > Matrix as well. I could put up a naming poll if you want. It was pretty useful last time! ~TJ
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