I'd prefer we keep "Region" for the low-level graphics primitive Region (just 
like Path), and use something prefixed for the higher-level layout concept.

Simon

On Jul 12, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Dana Jansens wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote:
> I'd vote for CSSRegion or CSSOMRegion for the class you're adding but I'll 
> also suggest we rename the existing Region class now that the term "region" 
> has a specific semantic in CSS. Maybe LayoutRegion or ScreenRegion?
> 
> IntRegion? It seems closer to an IntRect than a LayoutRect. 
> - Ryosuke
> 
> On Jul 12, 2012 10:13 AM, "Eric Seidel" <e...@webkit.org> wrote:
> I would go with CSSRegion, and stick it in the css/ folder.  Much of
> the CSS folder is our implementation of the CSS Object Model (CSSOM).
> At some point it might make sense to pull all the classes which
> implement the CSSOM out of css/ into a new cssom/ similar to dom/, but
> that's a later discussion.
> 
> -eric
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Andrei Bucur <abu...@adobe.com> wrote:
> > From my knowledge the "CSS" prefix is reserved for the CSS engine classes in
> > WebKit. Prefixing the Region class with "CSS" could prove confusing.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrei.
> >
> > From: Alan Stearns <stea...@adobe.com>
> > Date: Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:39 PM
> > To: Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org>, Andrei Bucur <abu...@adobe.com>
> >
> > Cc: "webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org" <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org>
> > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Web APIs and class name collisions
> >
> > The spec itself consistently and deliberately calls them "CSS Regions," so a
> > CSS prefix could be appropriate.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > From: Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org>
> > To: Andrei Bucur <abu...@adobe.com>
> > Cc: "webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org" <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org>
> > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Web APIs and class name collisions
> >
> > One common thing we do is prefix "DOM" to DOM-level concepts.  For example,
> > DOMWindow and DOMFileSystem.  I'm not sure if we have an established
> > convention for CSS-level concepts.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Andrei Bucur <abu...@adobe.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Webkittens!
> >>
> >> While implementing the Region interface (
> >> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-regions/#the-region-interface ) I've noticed
> >> that the name "Region" is already taken by a class in platform/graphics. 
> >> I'd
> >> like to know what's the best approach in these kind of situations:
> >>
> >> Rename the existing WebCore class to something else and use the name
> >> "Region" for the Web API so there's parity between the implementation and
> >> the spec
> >> Somehow prefix the Web API implementation class name?
> >>
> >> As the Web APIs expand I suppose this situation may occur again in the
> >> future and I suppose there should be a rule describing what's the best
> >> approach to take.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Andrei.
> >>
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