On Nov 13, 2013 6:41 PM, "Dirk Schulze" <dschu...@adobe.com> wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [resending because of a bounced message] > > > > DrawingPath is saying the same thing twice. > > Maybe DOMDrawing is better? (with "drawing" the definition of > > http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/drawing?q=drawing) > > I disagree. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/path_1?q=path > > 1) A Path is following a track. > 2) Drawing is actually putting something visual on a surface. > > The former is true, the latter is not. Since the Path is not drawing anything but is just a simple representation of segments, the term “drawing” is misleading. Then it seems to be a verb, even though the segment representation isn’t doing anything. > > I know, I am not helping with that. Seriously, I do not believe that the first thing crossing the mind of randomly asked people on Path is file structure or URL.
Actually I opened this thread out of interest because I thought this was that this was related to files. In NodeJS the "path" module deals with file paths, Unix $PATH (which also comes second in Google search for path, where most results are related to the app) deals with file paths, in Java the Path class represents a file path and the same in Python. Also if you Google "Path API", the first page includes no results related to the kind of paths we're talking about here, but some file-related APIs. In that light, I'm curious as to what's the reasoning for your belief? Path is also too generic even in the context of graphics. If we later on want to add a path object for 3-dimensional paths, you end up with Path and Path3D? Yay for consistency. Path2D would immediately inform what dimensions we're dealing with and also that this is to do with graphics, and thus sounds like a good name to me. - Jussi > > Greetings, > Dirk > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org >wrote: > > > >> I bikeshed-+1 Elliott's earlier suggestion of DrawingPath. > >> > >> > >> Rob > >> -- > >> Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni > >> le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa > >> stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, > >> 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp > >> waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w > >> >