Re: hit regions Firefox support update

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> 
> We have been discussing this with W3C Canvas API editors.

They're not the ones who designed or are maintaining the hit region API.

It's one thing for the W3C to just copy everything the WHATWG does and 
republish it as a W3C spec. It's orders of magnitude worse when you first 
copy it all, *and then start changing it without coordinating with the 
group that first developed it*.

Either make up your own APIs from scratch, or work with the group that's 
designing the APIs that you copy when you review them. Don't just copy 
someone else's work, then start changing it without coordination. This 
results in forked technologies and is actively harming the Web.

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Received on Monday, 17 February 2014 18:12:52 UTC