On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Luke Hoban wrote: >> Speaking on behalf of real world web developers, the opposition to >> "Globalization" is that it's unnecessarily long. This is a long standing >> problem with APIs that are designed by people that don't have to use them >> everyday. > > Agreed - a shorter name would be better - but the alternative being discussed > here is not a shorter name - it's this tradeoff: > > "Globalization" vs. "Object.System.loaded['@globalization']"
As I just suggested in reply to Rick, I think micro-optimizing here for brevity is not the main thing. Most developers will want the Date.prototype, etc. extensions -- easy to use and better-localizable methods. All the full-metal OOP APIs for amortizing collator construction costs, etc., will be used less frequently, even if by some big web app properties. /be > > That is, the alternative here is 3 times as long as the already > 'unnecessarily long' option. As Brendan noted, we still need to do the API > design on the system module loader to try to streamline this - but the design > space currently being explored won't lead to this being shorter than > "Globalization", so the length argument by itself would seem to favor a > single global name. > > There was an earlier thread discussing alternatives to "Globalization", > several of which are shorter and may be appropriate choices instead. > > Luke > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
