Re: making page visibility a property of document instead of top level browsing context from Boris Zbarsky on 2014-01-27 (public-web-perf@w3.org from January 2014)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:02:58 -0500
To: Arvind Jain <arvind@google.com>
CC: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "public-web-perf@w3.org" <public-web-perf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <52E5BE52.2040707@mit.edu>

On 1/25/14 8:24 AM, Arvind Jain wrote:
> Yes it is unfortunate that we are suggesting a non-compatible change.
> Earlier in this thread, we discussed this - I'm pasting that exchange
> below. Please let us know what you think we should do.

If we think we want to make this change, then what we _should_ do is get 
UAs to change behavior ASAP, and pray that there is no one depending on 
the old behavior yet.  The longer the old behavior sticks around, the 
harder it becomes to change.

Any UAs volunteering to go first?

-Boris

Received on Monday, 27 January 2014 02:03:43 UTC