On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 2014-05-01, 3:12 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> On Thu, 1 May 2014, Rik Cabanier wrote: >> >>> >>> No particular reason. The spec text is identical; just the name of the >>> method changed. Roc suggested the new name and people liked it better. I >>> believe Ian stated that he would update the WHATWG version when there >>> are 2 implementations. >>> >> >> There's two methods in the HTML spec, drawSystemFocusRing(element) and >> drawCustomFocusRing(element). It's not clear to me that the name >> "drawFocusIfNeeded()" is an improvement on either. In particular, I can't >> tell which it's replacing, nor what the other would be called if we >> followed the same naming scheme. >> >> The WHATWG spec is going to follow browsers, but that doesn't mean that >> the new name is necessarily better. If it was, I would have updated the >> spec already instead of waiting for multiple UAs to do something else. >> > > So, which other UAs have so far agreed on which names? I don't think we > should ship the API unless there is a name for it that everyone agrees on. > Blink, IE and Mozilla agree on the current name. (It was proposed by mozilla) Both mozilla and blink have the API behind a flag. I asked the WebKit folks and they told me that the new name is fine. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
