- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:59:10 +0200
- To: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
- Cc: "public-webapps.w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:57:17 +0200, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > (12/06/18 22:45), Simon Pieters wrote: >> I think we should instead either fix the old API (if it turns out to not >> Break the Web) or live with past mistake (if it turns out it does). To >> find out whether it Breaks the Web (and the breakage can't be evanged), >> I suggest we ship the backwards-incompatible change to querySelector() >> in nightly/aurora (or equivalent) in one or more browsers for some time. > > I didn't read through all the QSA threads, but isn't the function name > itself a mistake that many people don't want to live with? We have lots of shipped APIs with worse names. I think we should live with past mistakes, try not to make them again, and move on. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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