That's fine. As I said before, As it appears that nobody else does
either, I'll make this a TODO to sweep through and fix.

- a

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll raise this again:
>
> your js object that methods hang off should be called "chrome" not
> "chromium"... we use "chrome" in all of our other API points
> (chrome-ui:// and chrome-extensions:// protocol schemes, the user
> agent string etc).
>
> FYI - Chromium is the name of the project, not the product, and should
> never appear in code. I should probably add this to the style guide on
> dev.chromium.org!
>
> -Ben
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> A few of us extension guys were talking offline Monday about how now
>> that we've all had a chance to implement some APIs, we are probably
>> better positioned to come to consensus on the remaining style points.
>>
>> I went through the existing three browser APIs (windows, tabs, and
>> bookmarks -- http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions)
>> and tried to identify all the places where they differ. I've also put
>> my vote for whether and how they should be aligned.
>>
>> Let me know what you think...
>>
>> Naming:
>> - We have chromium.windows.getWindows(),
>> chromium.windows.createWindow(), etc and chromium.bookmarks.get(),
>> chromium.bookmarks.create().
>> - My vote: I like chromium.bookmarks.create(). The downside to this is
>> that we can never put more than one primary object in a namespace, but
>> I'm OK with that. We should also change the event names to be like
>> onMove instead of onTabMoved.
>>
>> Querying:
>> - We have getWindows(WindowQuery), getTabs(TabQuery), and
>> bookmarks.get(ids)+bookmarks.search(text).
>> - My vote: It doesn't look to me like there is a general solution
>> here. Searching for windows and tabs using multiple criterion
>> (WindowQuery, TabQuery) feels pretty hard to use to me. Doing so in
>> history feels more natural. Doing so for bookmarks is kinda in
>> between. I feel like for these we might want to do things that are
>> more optimized for the module in question. For example
>> windows.getTop(), windows.getCurrent(), bookmarks.getTree(), etc. I'll
>> start separate conversations for these, though.
>>
>> Updating:
>> - We have bookmarks.setTitle(id, title) and windows.updateWindow({id,
>> top, left, width, height, ...})
>> - My vote. I like the single update method for objects that naturally
>> have lots of fields you can update. For bookmarks, for example, you
>> will eventually be able to update both url and title. It seems natural
>> to me to be able to do both at the same time. It also lends itself
>> well to batch operations, should we ever want to do that. I also
>> really like Rafael's idea to separate out the id parameter, so it
>> would look like windows.updateWindow(id, {top, left, width, height,
>> ...}). This elegantly solves the problem of accidentally using an old
>> object and clobbering more recent state. If we do this, probably we
>> should also split out id in the move apis, to be consistent.
>>
>> Update Event:
>> - Sometimes we pass old and new objects according to the docs, but I
>> think it will be difficult to actually do that.
>> - My vote: onUpdate(int id, {properties and values that changed}). The
>> second param would be an object containing the names of the properties
>> that changed and their new values.
>>
>> Move Event:
>> - We have onBookmarkOrderChanged(int folderid, int[] newchildids) and
>> onTabMoved(int tabid, int windowid, int fromindex, int toindex)
>> - My vote: I think we should go with onTabMoved(int tabid, int
>> newindex). In other places we have assumed that the client is keeping
>> state, so this should be the same. We'd still send only one move event
>> and assume the client either understands the implied shuffling, or
>> will refetch the entire list. Question: Do we need to send fromIndex?
>>
>>
>> - a
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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