Re: Consensus gathering for the Dezippering issue

Hi Karl, all.

On 5 Dec 2013, at 01:02, Karl Tomlinson <karlt+public-audio@karlt.net> wrote:

> Chris Lowis writes:
>
>> On the call the participants reached a consensus to:
>>
>> 1) Keep dezippering in the spec
>> 2) Apply it universally to all parameters (such that there are no
>> "edge cases" in the spec
>
> Is someone able to elaborate, please on the reason for the change
> in viewpoint?  Previously, most people on this list seemed to be
> in the explicit-is-better-than-implicit camp.

See the minutes of our last teleconference for details:
        http://www.w3.org/2013/11/21-audio-minutes.html#item03

It was tossup. We went for “paving the cowpaths” and standardising the behaviour in Blink/Webkit. Given the quorum at the teleconference, there was an obvious need to check that other implementors and WG members could live with this, hence this CfC.

Olivier




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