Re: Blob/File naming

2010-09-08 Thread Chris Prince
1. Most people that I talk to dislike the name Blob, much less having it spread to things like BlobReader. I could maybe understand this if blob were a new term we were inventing. But it's not. It's a well-known computer science concept. It seems worse to try and coin a totally new name for

RE: Blob/File naming

2010-09-07 Thread Adrian Bateman
On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:46 AM, Chris Prince wrote: 1. Most people that I talk to dislike the name Blob, much less having it spread to things like BlobReader. I could maybe understand this if blob were a new term we were inventing. But it's not. It's a well-known computer

Re: Blob/File naming

2010-09-07 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Chris Prince chris.pri...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Most people that I talk to dislike the name Blob, much less having it spread to things like BlobReader. I could maybe understand this if blob were a new term we were inventing.  But it's not.  It's a well-known

Re: Blob/File naming

2010-09-07 Thread Michael Nordman
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Adrian Bateman adria...@microsoft.comwrote: On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:46 AM, Chris Prince wrote: 1. Most people that I talk to dislike the name Blob, much less having it spread to things like BlobReader. I could maybe understand this if blob

Blob/File naming

2010-08-31 Thread Adrian Bateman
On Monday, August 30, 2010 1:09 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Arun Ranganathan a...@mozilla.com wrote: *sigh.  Naming continues to be hard.  Not everyone's thrilled with the proliferation of Blob in the API [1] including other major implementors (my co-editor