- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:10:24 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > 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. We're back at the Distributed Extensibility discussion. BR, Julian
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