Re: [selectors-4] bikeshed on profiles

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems a lot of people are confused by the 'fast' and 'complete'
> profiles especially because of the name 'fast'... We have spent a a
> lot of time discussing why they even exist.
>
> Jonathan Kingston‏ (@KingstonTime) mentioned to me the same, and so
> I'm just wondering if we're doing ourselves extra harm by calling it
> 'fast'.  It's not 'fast' in so much as 'what we already do and know
> how to do in order to do the dynamic selector matching that is CSS'.
>
> So, what about just renaming them 'static-profile' and
> 'dynamic-profile' as you can explain why right there in the spec and
> it should be a little easier for people to grok and avoid confusion..

These names are fine with me.  It communicates pretty well what they
actually mean, and gives a better idea of what things might not be
appropriate for the "fast" (dynamic) version.

Also, bz gave this set a +1 in another thread.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:35:15 UTC