- From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:20:29 +0100
- To: Doug Turner <dougt@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com, public-device-apis@w3.org
Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 10:09 -0700, Doug Turner a écrit : > I am worried about consistency. I agree that consistency is important; but between consistency and doing the right thing, I think the latter takes precedence. Given the way the Web develops, I think there is very little chance we can have a good degree of consistency since it's almost impossible to deprecate APIs. I'm all for striving for consistency when two equivalent solutions exist, but if the addEventListener-with-side-effect is considered an inferior solution, I don't think we should push consistency with that approach. > For example, consider the same developers that used device > motion/orientation wants to use proximity. It looks really familiar, > but no. they have to do extra stuff to make it work: > > 1) startup the device > 2) possibility explicitly shutdown the device (none of this is required in my proposal) > 3) use a different syntax > > That is just depressing I know; I hate how PHP APIs are ridiculously inconsistent, and I feel the pain when we have to break consistency among Web APIs. Dom
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