Hi all, Alexey appears to strongly dislike the name of this API specification ( http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webevents/raw-file/default/gamepad.html), so much so that he is blocking development of the API behind a flag.
As a reminder, this API is being developed through the WebEvents WG jointly with other browser vendors, including Mozilla. Folks working on this appear to be content with the Gamepad name, precisely because the spec is limited to dealing with input devices that are represented in terms of buttons and axes. Gamepad seems like a fairly canonical name for such a device, even though devices by other names can be represented by similar data. Does anyone else feel strongly enough that the name of the API is so bad that it should therefore not be allowed onto WebKit trunk behind a flag? Personally, I feel like the name is quite malleable at this point in time, and I really like coming up with the best possible name for things. However, I don't see why we need to have the perfect name before we continue development of this feature behind a flag. As we were developing Blob and File support, we made several name changes along the way. It is not always so obvious how to name things from the start. See this bug for reference: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69451 Thoughts? -Darin On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <[email protected]> wrote: > > 06.10.2011, в 13:49, Scott Graham написал(а): > > The first revision of the spec (from the Scope section) is intended to > handle: > > ... support for devices common to current gaming systems including > gamepads, directional pads, joysticks, wheels, pedals, accelerometers. > > > Why does the spec title and abstract talk about gamepads (joysticks) > only? Perhaps it's my mistake that I didn't read the scope section, but with > title and abstract being so specific, that seemed unnecessary. > > Skipping scope section, I went right to IDL. Why is the interface called > Gamepad if it's not only about gamepads? > > - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
_______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
