Bug 69578

Summary: Web Inspector: rename Layout to Reflow
Product: WebKit Reporter: Paul Irish <paulirish>
Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated)Assignee: Paul Irish <paulirish>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: Trivial CC: apavlov, bweinstein, caseq, joepeck, keishi, loislo, pfeldman, pmuellr, rik, shezbaig.wk, yurys
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Paul Irish 2011-10-06 15:57:34 PDT
These days a "reflow" is the defacto term for what the WebKit codebase terms a "layout":

http://code.google.com/speed/articles/reflow.html
http://code.google.com/p/css-reflow-timer/
http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2009/03/27/reflows-repaints-css-performance-making-your-javascript-slow/
http://www.slideshare.net/lsimon/go-with-the-reflow
http://www.phpied.com/the-new-game-show-will-it-reflow/
http://www.browserscope.org/reflow/about

I think it would provide more clarity to developers to adopt the common vernacular.

In the timeline view, I'd love to see the inspector use the term "Reflow" for those events.
Comment 1 Paul Irish 2013-01-31 17:20:22 PST
I think the balance has swung the other way. "Layout" is pretty accepted these days, and also accurately named. 
I'm happy to proceed with this term.