- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:05:21 +0300
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:51, Julian Reschke wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> ... >> By not using the same syntax for incompatible features. When you >> design an extension feature, Google for your tentative syntax first >> to see if others have used it already. >> ... > > I do not see how that scales. Alternatively, a would-be extender of the language could send email to public-html or the whatwg list announcing the intent to occupy a piece of syntax and allow for both peer review of the design and for potential existing users of the syntax to speak up. This doesn't need to scale to a huge number of extensions: Having a huge number of extensions would be bad for interop, and we shouldn't be designing for language extension dynamics that would harm interoperability. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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