Re: Length of LC comment period

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> > 
> > It seems pretty clear that multi-process UAs are refusing to implement 
> > the requirement. It also seems likely that more UAs will go 
> > multiprocess over time. Thus, it may not be possible to exit CR with 
> > this requirement.
> 
> For this case, I don't see why the spec can't just describe the expected 
> behavior and leave it to implementations to figure out how to solve the 
> issue. It seems like being algorithmically over prescriptive here will 
> lock people into certain architectures. If the prescribed behavior 
> proves to be impossible to implement during CR, then we can drop back to 
> LC and write the algorithm to solve this in prose.

That's what the spec does. The expected behaviour can't be implemented 
without the performance problem for multiprocess browsers.

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Received on Wednesday, 9 December 2009 09:46:18 UTC