[webkit-dev] Web APIs and class name collisions

[Alan Stearns]

The spec itself consistently and deliberately calls them "CSS Regions," so a CSS prefix could be appropriate.

Thanks,

Alan


From: Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org<mailto:abarth at webkit.org>>
To: Andrei Bucur <abucur at adobe.com<mailto:abucur at adobe.com>>
Cc: "webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org<mailto:webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>" <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org<mailto:webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>>
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Web APIs and class name collisions

One common thing we do is prefix "DOM" to DOM-level concepts.  For example, DOMWindow and DOMFileSystem.  I'm not sure if we have an established convention for CSS-level concepts.

Adam


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Andrei Bucur <abucur at adobe.com<mailto:abucur at adobe.com>> wrote:
Hello Webkittens!

While implementing the Region interface ( http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-regions/#the-region-interface ) I've noticed that the name "Region" is already taken by a class in platform/graphics. I'd like to know what's the best approach in these kind of situations:

 1.  Rename the existing WebCore class to something else and use the name "Region" for the Web API so there's parity between the implementation and the spec
 2.  Somehow prefix the Web API implementation class name?

As the Web APIs expand I suppose this situation may occur again in the future and I suppose there should be a rule describing what's the best approach to take.

Thanks!
Andrei.

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