<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Yes... is not seaside names really. </div><div><br></div><div>If you watch for the <p> documentation the first thing you see is that it is an html representation of a paragraph. Well to represent a paragraph in seaside we used the smalltalk culture that is to just say the name of the thing (I mean literally).</div><div><br></div><div>Smalltalk has this culture of enhancing readability paying some price in "writeabilty" but is nothing any decent autocompleter won't help you with.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the trade of is clever because, used properly, makes easier to have a nice flow of newbies who can feel it intuitive.</div><div><br></div><div>It makes easier for you to pretend that the virtual object is a real object.</div><div><br></div><div>besides that's why looking smalltalk code resulting from that is beautiful when compared with resulting html code (which hurts in your eye and brain)</div><div><br></div><div>The same probably apply to an abstraction to other stuff like javascript, squeak's own VM's C or whatever stuff you wrap with it</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/sebastianconcpt">sebastian</a></div><div><br></div><div>o/</div></div></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Feb 17, 2011, at 1:21 AM, Fritz Schenk wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I don't think that the decision of using new names (for example paragraph for <br><p>) is such a good idea.<br><br>Why was it done?<br><br>Thanks<br><br>P.A. Wow the captcha for this post is 'crusade'<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>seaside mailing list<br><a href="mailto:seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org">seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a><br>http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>