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Bug 23375 - This should be named hide, not close (Either go for the show/hide or open/close combo, not an odd combination)
Summary: This should be named hide, not close (Either go for the show/hide or open/clo...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2013-09-26 21:09 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-11-13 21:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-09-26 21:09:56 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/commands.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-dialog-close
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-dialog-close
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Comment:
This should be named hide, not close (Either go for the show/hide or
open/close combo, not an odd combination)

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-09-27 18:10:11 UTC 
I was actually just looking at this yesterday, and it turns out that show/close is actually the usual terminology:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2013Sep/0230.html
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-11-13 21:18:31 UTC 
Marking WORKSFORME per the e-mail in comment 1.