RE: [Web Components] Editor for Custom Elements

From: Philippe Le Hegaret [mailto:plh@w3.org] 

> But I hope you realize that coming in the W3C community, working with them for while, and then take things away to continue the work elsewhere is received as not working in good faith with the W3C community. This is not a judgment of whether it was the right technical decision to do or not but rather a pure social judgment. People in W3C working groups don't expect to be told to go somewhere else after they contributed for a while. Now, if you're interested in figuring out a way to solve this, I'm sure plenty of folks in the W3C community, myself included, would be interested in finding a way.

Yeah, I agree it is socially awkward that this work on a monkeypatch spec was started outside the standards community whose specs it was monkeypatching. That was in fact one of the original impetuses for Anne's famous "Monkey patch" post. [1] Given that as a starting point for this effort, this move was an inevitable outcome---as we've already seen with <template>, the first successful web components spec.

Setting aside the social judgement, from a technical point of view the path is clear. So although I regret the social downsides, it's unavoidable that if we want to as a larger community produce technically excellent specifications, we need to be able to accept this social issue and continue with the work of making the web platform better, without territorial concerns.

[1]: https://annevankesteren.nl/2014/02/monkey-patch

Received on Thursday, 7 April 2016 18:55:07 UTC