- From: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:11:08 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Oct 15, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Brendan Eich wrote: >> >> Please open your eyes to this relevant factoid, and take it into >> account >> in where you work to specify fully, since you cannot specify >> everything >> that might matter fully in any bounded amount of time, and you agree >> that things like GC cycles are more important and currently >> underserved.. > > I've spent far more time specifying GC stuff than document.all. Ok, but not the cycle issues. > Actually I > spent very little time (an afternoon?) specifying document.all to the > point where I was happy that it was fully specified and compatible > with > legacy content. It wasn't that difficult. I didn't think so, but it's not necessary to overspecify for interop today. Let's not go in circles: my point is not to optimize only *your* time, but everyone currently thrashing document.all here, in public-script-coord, and on es-discuss. We are very far from done with some "value types" solution in ES-Harmony. /be
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