- From: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:38:23 -0500
- To: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Martijn <martijn.martijn@gmail.com>, "Jim Ley" <jim@jibbering.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Dave Massy" <dave.massy@microsoft.com>, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On 12/20/06, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote: > ? I never claimed there were technical problems with "matchAll" or > "select" either - just that they didn't fit the pattern established by > the other DOM Recommendation APIs, Web authors don't encounter a consistent pattern, and what is and isn't a DOM Recommendation API is an artificial distinction that doesn't matter to most of them, though interoperability does (of course). If the issue is only one of clarity and consistency, then I heartily concur with Ian--that's what editors are for. > > To become a Recommendation, it has to go through a lot more > analysis by multiple parties and multiple implementations, etc Recommendations seem to vary widely in that regard. -- Robert Sayre
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