- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:50:32 +0200
- To: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Brendan Eich" <brendan@mozilla.com>
- Cc: "Cameron McCormack" <cam@mcc.id.au>, "Alex Russell" <slightlyoff@google.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:17:12 +0200, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com> wrote: > Isn't the problem not so much the lack of vendor prefixes, but the wrong > API design? > > IOW would a bunch of webkitCreate functions really make the current > situation better? > > In Ecma TC39 we do not vendor-prefix but we do try to get agreement on > design principles and particular straw proposal details, including > names, and then optimize for success. How can we do that if the API is being developed in secret? > My point is not so much to criticize vendor prefixing of JS APIs (I'll > save that for another message) as to observe that if we don't agree on > constructor pattern beating document.createX then vendor prefixing won't > help. It at least more clearly indicates to authors it is proprietary. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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