Re: [selectors-api] Consider backporting find() behavior to querySelector()

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:57:17 +0200, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu  
<kennyluck@csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> (12/06/18 22:45), Simon Pieters wrote:
>> I think we should instead either fix the old API (if it turns out to not
>> Break the Web) or live with past mistake (if it turns out it does). To
>> find out whether it Breaks the Web (and the breakage can't be evanged),
>> I suggest we ship the backwards-incompatible change to querySelector()
>> in nightly/aurora (or equivalent) in one or more browsers for some time.
>
> I didn't read through all the QSA threads, but isn't the function name
> itself a mistake that many people don't want to live with?

We have lots of shipped APIs with worse names. I think we should live with  
past mistakes, try not to make them again, and move on.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software