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Re: Non-constructible constructors and Arrays

From: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:10:31 -0700
Cc: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Cameron McCormack" <cam@mcc.id.au>, "Alex Russell" <slightlyoff@google.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
Message-Id: <19F113FC-27CC-49BF-8503-EF7806AF68C8@mozilla.com>
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> 
On Sep 10, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:17:12 +0200, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> Isn't the problem not so much the lack of vendor prefixes, but the wrong API design?
>> 
>> IOW would a bunch of webkitCreate functions really make the current situation better?
>> 
>> In Ecma TC39 we do not vendor-prefix but we do try to get agreement on design principles and particular straw proposal details, including names, and then optimize for success.
> 
> How can we do that if the API is being developed in secret?

Oh, I didn't know anyone was doing that. Are you talking about something going on right now, or a ship that sailed years ago from Apple?

/be
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