Re: What are the chances of syntax changes?

I don't have an insiders perspective on the lifecycle of standards. But I'd
agree with the statement "once people start using it, it can't change". -To
be on the safe side I might replace "can't" with very unlikely.

I think history demonstrates that once it is implemented, if it does
change, it will be a long time before the browsers drop support for the
depreciated methods.

To give an example <center> and <font> were depreciated in HTML4 but
continue to work in the latest versions of most browsers.

If it does change I'd say companies will have time to adapt.

Mike

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com> wrote:

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> On September 11, 2014 at 6:16:12 PM, Jason Grigsby (jason@cloudfour.com)
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> > I'd love to hear from someone with more perspective on the lifecycle
> > of standards about how confident we should feel that picture
> > will stay as currently spec'd. Is it common that features like
> > this get tweaked a little in the future as people start using them
> > and an oversight is found? Should we still be hedging our bets
> > a little? Or does it seem extremely unlikely to change at this
> > point?
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> Once it gets into the wild and people start using it, it can't change.
> Thems is the golden rule of the Web.
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> Spec is stable and the browsers are coming this month - go forth and
> <picture> all the things! Make the web beautiful again :)
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