Re: Next Web Focus

On Jan 24, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:

> The aims of this group are, yes focused on advocating and discussing polyfills and prollyfills - and advocacy that enables this, for significant reasons and in ways described on extensiblewebmanifesto.org.  Very key among these is that it provides an evolutionary model forward rather than allowing a browser to stymie efforts or prompting big bets on radical change which, if they fail (and many do), stall forward momentum on the current platform.  Actually, i would say the majority of work has been applying this advocacy in existing WGs to prioritize efforts in this direction as a guiding philosophy.
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It seems to me the focus of this group isn’t really the polyfills and prolyfills - rather those are the tools used experiment, find places where core expansion is valuable/necessary, and encourage and drive those critical lower level primitives into the platform itself.