Re: W3C Polyfill service?

So part of this discussion ended up in the TAG finding on polyfills. Is 
there more to do?

cheers


On 19/10/16 10:46, Andrew Betts wrote:
> At a W3C Japan meeting in Tokyo yesterday, which I attended at Keio 
> University, polyfills were mentioned frequently (I noticed this 
> particularly because it was one of the few words I could understand 
> when presentations were in Japanese).
>
> Satoru Takagi from KDDI (a large mobile operator) subsequently 
> suggested to me that W3C could provide an 'official' source of 
> spec-compliant polyfills for new features (something like 
> "polyfills.w3.org <http://polyfills.w3.org>"), and adopting 
> polyfill.io <http://polyfill.io> as a starting point for this would 
> seem to be a sensible approach.
>
> His slides:
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/totipalmate/svg2-candidate-recommendation-in-english
>
> As the maintainer of polyfill.io <http://polyfill.io>, I'm open to 
> this idea.  There's precedent for this in things like the validator 
> services W3C operates, and there would likely be huge developer 
> interest and adoption. W3C could bring governance and administration 
> support to the project and the existing participants could continue to 
> perform their existing roles.
>
> I mentioned it to Mike Smith at the event, and he was skeptical, but I 
> thought it worth asking if anyone thinks this is worth pursuing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew

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