[whatwg] Comments on <dialog>

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > The current naming is based on window.showModalDialog() and 
> > window.close(). I agree the naming is weird, but being consistent is 
> > probably going to be more helpful on the long run.
> 
> But that's because we have window.open but not an equivalent of 
> window.close for window.showModalDialog, right?
> 
> It seems more consistent to use show/hide or open/close as Matt 
> suggested.

Consistent with what? We have window.open()/window.close, and 
window.showModalDialog()/window.close(). We also have 
document.open()/document.close(), and so on (EventSource, etc). I suppose 
we could change show() to open(), but then we'd be inconsistent with 
showModalDialog() for openModal()...

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