[whatwg] translate attribute conflicts with http://www.winktoolkit.org/documentation/symbols/HTMLElement.html#translate

[Adam Barth]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Adam Barth wrote:
>>
>> WebKit recently implemented
>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-translate, but
>> that caused us to break orange.fr on mobile:
>>
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82246
>>
>> The problem is that
>> http://www.winktoolkit.org/documentation/symbols/HTMLElement.html#translate
>> has a the following code:
>>
>> if (wink.isUndefined(HTMLElement.prototype.translate))
>>     HTMLElement.prototype.translate = HTMLElement.prototype.winkTranslate;
>>
>> The web site expects HTMLElement.prototype.translate to be Wink's
>> translate function rather than the HTML translate attribute.
>>
>> Would it make sense to change the name of the translate attribute to
>> avoid this conflict?  Should we try to evangalize the Wink Toolkit to
>> change their code and everyone who uses Wink to update to the fixed
>> version?
>
> How widely used is it? (In particular, how widely used is .translate()
> rather than .winkTranslate()?)

The documentation lists only .translate(), not .winkTranslate(), so I
would expect most folks using the library to use the former rather
than the latter.

Adam


> I don't mind changing the name, but it's unclear that there's a better
> name out there. It would be unfortunate to have to reserve the use of a
> name as generic as "translate" for a particular library.
>
> In any case we should definitely ask Wink to avoid unprefixed names.
> That's asking for trouble.
>
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