I think RichTextArea is fine and prefer it to RichTextEditor. Standard Javadocs will show that it is not a subclass of TextArea, and other documentation can also stress the point if necessary.
Components with similar functionality (and classes in general) will often have similar names, but a developer should be able to figure out simple things on their own without too much hand holding. Chris On 22 August 2010 00:03, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm planning to start working on the new plain text TextArea soon. I am > going to initially create this class as TextArea2 and then rename it later > to TextArea, after we rename the existing TextArea to something else. > > My question for you is: what do you think the rich text area component > should be called? I had been thinking RichTextArea, but that might imply > that it is a subclass of TextArea, which it won't be. Also, Noel's rich text > editing demo refers to it as a "rich text editor". So might RichTextEditor > be better? > > Let me know what you think. > > Thanks, > Greg > >
