Re: Strawman Promises consensus position, based on Thursday's telechat

Can someone explain to me what the point of not deprecating a
known-bad-thing is? Note that deprecating does not mean immediate
removal. Just issueing warnings that it will be removed down the line
and indicating what the replacement is. If you don't do that, I don't
see why it's realistic to think you can deprecate it in two years
time.

The facts as I know them are:

* The WebRTC API is prefixed in implementations
* Promises are stable and shipping unprefixed (this was the holdout
argument last year, if you remember)
* It is hard to remove deployed features on the web

That seems like a more than ideal position to move to promises when
unprefixing happens. Perhaps supporting callbacks for a while to ease
transition. Why is this not tenable?


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Received on Saturday, 4 October 2014 06:28:27 UTC