Consider renaming boxes to bins or something

[fantasai]

This is a very trivial issue, and maybe there's a very good reason not to do this, but given that “box” in CSS has a very specific definition that's used in pretty much every CSS spec and is embedded as a term in some of its APIs, one might consider renaming the Storage concept of “box” to something else?

[fantasai]

Or at least maybe just not exporting the definition if it's a spec-internal term...

[annevk]

@inexorabletash @shuangMoz @jakearchibald thoughts? I'm happy to rename this. We'll need to export something since eventually other specifications will use it.

Bin doesn't seem appropriate since it's not trash. I could prefix it with storage perhaps. So "storage box".

Other alternative: store. But that is also used a lot I suspect.

[domenic]

FWIW the "trash" association with "bin" is probably more of a regional thing; it isn't in the dictionary. (But I can believe that some places in the world use "trash bin" like Americans use "garbage can".)

[inexorabletash]

I'm fine with a rename, but no strong preferences.

"store" will get confused with Indexed DB's object store

Internally, Chrome has "partition" for a different concept so I'd vote against that one too.

I'd casually use "bucket" to describe this, but there may be connotations (buckets get full, buckets leak, etc)

[annevk]

I'm okay with "bucket".

[fantasai]

We have trash bin and recycling bin here in the US, and they're understandably the most common, but we also have other kinds of bins. :) The plastic things in here are all called bins. https://www.northerntool.com/images/product/2000x2000/502/50273_2000x2000.jpg (The only other term I can think of atm would be “compartment” but it's less precise for this particular usage.)

[annevk]

I created #52 to address this.

[annevk]

Per feedback in the PR it seems like it'll be "bucket" after all.