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

[Ian Hickson]

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()?)

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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[Edward O'Connor]

Hi Ian,

You wrote:

> It would be unfortunate to have to reserve the use of a name as
> generic as "translate" for a particular library.

Indeed. That said, the name "translate" already means something in the
platform—it's used by CSS transforms and by the <canvas> 2D Context API.
Wink's usage of the term matches the existing use of the term on the
platform.

Maybe we should rename the "is this element translatable or not"
attribute to, say, "translatable".

Ted