May
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Blur

(Add / View Comments) (0)Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 11:03:38 am
(Posted Under: Web Development)
blur() has always been a stupidly named function to me, steaming right back to my first introduction to it. Arguably a java subject at uni. It's always annoyed me, and still does to this day.

Funnily enough, in the ten odd years since then, I don't know that I've considered the reason behind the naming, which has dawned on me today. Blurring is the opposite of focusing!

Of course, I still don't like it. I don't buy the concept that it's that type of focusing. I've never had a problem with the a widget 'taking the input focus', however I would argue that this is a different type of focus than say focusing a lens. Hence, the opposite is losing the input focus, not blurring.

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