On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Brian Di Palma <offler@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I would say though that I get the feeling that Web Components seems a >> > specification that seems really pushed/rushed and I worry that might >> > lead to some poor design decisions whose side effects will be felt by >> > developers in the future. >> >> I very much share this sentiment. >> > > It's a very reasonable and normal worry to have. I lose sleep over this > worry all the time. The trick that helps me is balancing it out with the > sadness of the geological timescale that it takes for Web platform to > advance. > Just to help visualize the geological timescale, the work on Web Components began in late 2010 ( http://wiki.whatwg.org/index.php?title=Component_Model_Use_Cases&oldid=5631), and was chartered in this WG over 2 years ago ( http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/CharterChanges#Additions_Agreed). To clarify my previous email: Web Components is an extremely hard problem with lots of constraints, and a concern would be that we miss some bits is totally fair. Qualifying this work as "pushed/rushed" probably ain't. :DG<
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