{"id":146,"date":"2007-06-23T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2007\/06\/naming-debate"},"modified":"2013-09-07T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:42:52","slug":"naming-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2007\/06\/naming-debate","title":{"rendered":"Selectors API Naming Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/selectors-api\/\">Selectors API<\/a> naming debate is <em>finally over!<\/em> (I hope)<\/p>\r\n<p>The number of <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-webapi\/2007Jun\/0075.html\">possibilities and arguments<\/a> was absurd!  There were over 38 pairs of names to choose from, with arguments for and against every single one of them.  Today, after carefully reviewing the arguments and considering the possibilities, I eventually decided upon <code>selectElement()<\/code> and <code>selectAllElements()<\/code>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In an attempt to settle the debate once and for all, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-webapi\/2007Jun\/0077.html\">a detailed rationale<\/a> explaining how I came to this decision.  You can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.w3.org\/cvsweb\/~checkout~\/2006\/webapi\/selectors-api\/Overview.html?content-type=text\/html;%20charset=UTF-8\">latest version of the spec in CVS<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Selectors API naming debate is finally over, now that I have finally reached a decision.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}