- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:22:25 -0700
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org>, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org>, public-webapps@w3.org
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:16 AM, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com> wrote: > On 04/14/2011 03:04 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >>> It would be nice to hear from someone at Opera about their willingness to >>> commit to this change >>> as well. > > As a general point we think that making breaking changes to APIs with > multiple compatible implementations that are already shipping is a really > bad idea. So let's try and make this a one off. > > That said, we will go along with the plan, but we can't commit to a timeline > for releasing the changed version. Thanks James! I agree this is something we should really avoid. The best way I think we can do that in the future is to prefix implementations until specs are agreed to be in a more stable state. I certainly have had my fair share in not doing so enough, so not trying to shift blame here. / Jonas
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