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Bug 23433 - show/close? really? why not show/hide or open/close like pretty much every thing else?
Summary: show/close? really? why not show/hide or open/close like pretty much every th...
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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Reported: 2013-10-03 18:33 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-11-13 21:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-10-03 18:33:46 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:
show/close? really? why not show/hide or open/close like pretty much every
thing else?

Posted from: 2001:470:1f11:b60:59fc:40ea:7cf6:e927
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.66 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-10-03 19:28:33 UTC 
Turns out "pretty much everything else" actually uses show/close.

See the last part of:
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2013Sep/0230.html

Do you know of other APIs I should look at, that I missed?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-11-13 21:59:18 UTC 
Given comment 1 and the lack of further information, marking WORKSFORME.