Ian Hickson wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Zachary Carter wrote:
FWIW, in my first encounter with HTML5 <dialog> I assumed it meant a
dialog box. This might be due to my experience with the <dialog> element
in XUL[1], which is used for that. Also, dialog boxes are generally more
common from my browsing experience, so I hadn't considered the
alternative usage at first.
I agree that the initial name, if that's all you see, has the opportunity
to confuse, but once you read what the element was really for, did the
confusion continue to be a problem?
Of course most people using these elements won't be reading the spec.
It is quite likely that someone will assume <dialog> is the "correct"
tag to use for a CSS+JS dialog box.
~fantasai
