- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 19:43:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, public-script-coord@w3.org, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > Somehow we also need to avoid the mistake of browsers releasing > unprefixed APIs which don't use constructors as they should. The touch > events spec is filled with silly document.createX functions that should > use constructors because Apple implemented it that way and without a > prefix. :( Why would adding a constructor be prevented here? Surely so long as the experimental API doesn't _conflict_ with the final API, we're fine. Prefixes are only intended to prevent name conflicts; so long as spec editors vary the names when they vary the semantics, they're not really needed in practice. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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