- From: Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:25:38 -0500
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, Satish S <satish@google.com>, Glen Shires <gshires@google.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAHfnhfrqQdggJ9kxE5S0-TAS_YJR93jAdXS1nf0ZZRYb51aAZw@mail.gmail.com>
Apologies, cited the wrong message in this thread, please forgive. ( Rick: -2 ;) ) On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>wrote: > So, one of the biggest issues facing the web right now is the ones that > aren't seen by end users of web sites - they are seen by web developers who > have to wade through cryptic, often bizarre, frequently asymmetrical and > almost alway too concise or too verbose APIs. Proposal and spec authors > have the power to change this, and I understand it's hard to open your work > for others to pick apart, but think of it this way: if you came to work and > someone in the office had brought in new desks and computers without asking > you and just said "use this, because I said so and I know better", at the > very least, you'd be frustrated. There are too many examples of DOM APIs > that suck and not enough examples of ones that are great and easy to use. > > Rick > > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>wrote: > >> Hi Satish, >> >> >> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:50:25 +0100, Satish S <satish@google.com> wrote: >> >> Re the mail list, if we turn this around and look at it from the >>>> perspective of someone that is mostly interested in the CG and not >>>> WebApps, they would then receive close to an additional 2K emails >>>> per quarter. >>>> >>> >>> I really don't think you want that so I recommend against using >>>> public-webapps. >>>> >>> >>> Speech API discussions could use a "[speech api]" prefix in the email >>> subject so that participants can filter emails based on that. I see this >>> style being used by File API and possibly others in the webapps mailing >>> list. >>> >> >> True, but those are deliverables of the Web Apps group. Which already has >> a number of deliverables, and a lot of mail traffic for work it has agreed >> to take on. We have already moved various kinds of work to other lists to >> reduce that traffic. >> >> >> As Glen mentioned keeping discussions in the webapps mailing list >>> will provide visibility to a wider audience, with a balanced web-centric >>> view for new JavaScript APIs. >>> >> >> The wider audience are welcome to subscribe to a list for the group >> working on the API - but they may not want to. The fact that you add >> messages to people's inbox doesn't mean that they will read them, as we all >> know already. I do not think it is reasonable to use this list for the work >> given that it has not been accepted as a work item by the group. >> >> Cheers >> >> Chaals >> >> -- >> Charles 'chaals' McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group >> je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg kan litt norsk >> http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com >> >> >
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