Re: [CSSOM] Revisiting transforms and getBoundingClientRect()

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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!


That would be great!