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Re: [Bug 12111] spec for Storage object getItem(key) method does not match implementation behavior

From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:12:57 -0400
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <1307041977.2282.1557.camel@chacal>
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 19:00 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 18:51 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > > I don't believe that this new feature will get implemented. It's going 
> > > > to break too many pages on the Web,
> > > 
> > > That's the kind of thing implementation feedback will determine.
> > 
> > You've got that feedback already. See
> >  http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12111#c3
> 
> That isn't implementor feedback, and it says nothing about the volume of 
> breakage. If Aryeh is the only person affected, then I'm sure he'd agree 
> with me that that means we can change this without worry.

For what I'm concerned, I'm more interested in a spec this year that
describe what has been working for the past 2 years than a spec that
describe what might work in 2 years from now. I wonder if it's possible
to work on such spec within the group, I'm willing to help.

Philippe
Received on Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:13:08 UTC

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