[whatwg] Questions regarding Path object

Jürg Lehni lists at scratchdisk.com
Mon Nov 4 01:51:21 PST 2013


Hi Norto,

On Nov 2, 2013, at 02:19 , Michael Norton <norto at me.com> wrote:

> Hi Jürg,
> 
> On Oct 29, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Jürg Lehni <lists at scratchdisk.com> wrote:
> 
>> More recently, things appear to have been named a bit more specifically, often with prefixes, e.g. HTMLCanvasElement, DOMParser, XMLHttpRequest (which is wrongly named, since it's used for much more than XML),   
> 
> I am not sure what else you mean by this.  Could you please elaborate, perhaps with an example?

What part is not clear? These were a couple of examples for constructors with specific names, rather than a general 'Path'. The parenthesis was referring to the fact that XMLHttpRequest is mostly used for JSON these days, or other data besides XML.

Jürg


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