12466 2011-04-10 08:07:25 +0000 Why the word pop? Seems so ambiguous. I would have gone with statechange, or historychange. I'd like to know the reason behind the decision for popstate? 2011-08-04 05:06:55 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#event-popstate P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ayg jackalmage mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 47312 0 contributor 2011-04-10 08:07:25 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#event-popstate Comment: Why the word pop? Seems so ambiguous. I would have gone with statechange, or historychange. I'd like to know the reason behind the decision for popstate? Posted from: 99.65.100.6 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.34 Safari/534.24 47317 1 jackalmage 2011-04-10 22:10:08 +0000 'push' and 'pop' are well-established in computer science as referring to the basic operations you can perform on a stack, which your history is. 50265 2 ayg 2011-06-24 18:35:57 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Additional Information Needed Change Description: no spec change Rationale: You don't seem to be asking for any spec change, just asking about the current terminology. If you would like the spec to be changed, please reopen. The current spec already seems to be implemented here, like in Firefox 4, so it's very unlikely it would be changed without compelling reason. 53124 3 mike 2011-08-04 05:06:55 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1