On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 6 May 2014, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>>
>> > We could probably come up with a slightly better name, but only very
>> > slightly better, so at this point I would rather not reopen the
>> > discussion. If someone else wants to, that's up to them.
>>
>> There hasn't been a discussion at all, so far.
>>
>
> Please don't be too pedantic. There has been a discussion between vendors,
> it just wasn't public.
>

FWIW the discussion was public.
See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-canvas-api/2014JanMar/0003.html


> For which I have already apologized.
>
> Right now the spec says it's "drawSystemFocusRing()" and
>> "drawCustomFocusRing()", because there hasn't been a request to change it.
>>
>
> The WHATWG spec says that. The W3C spec was changed in January as a result
> of the aforementioned discussion. It's sad that we need to qualify which
> spec we're talking about, but we do.
>

Dominic brought up that the name was confusing on WHATWG:
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2013-September/252545.html

I like the new name better because it describes what the API is doing.
'drawSystemFocusRing' doesn't always draw and 'drawCustomFocusRing' returns
true if the author should draw (unless it draws itself!)
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