- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 17:07:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Brendan Eich <brendan@secure.meer.net>
- cc: chaals@yandex-team.ru, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Robert Hanson <hansonr@stolaf.edu>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Brendan Eich wrote: > > Also (I am a WHATWG cofounder) it is overreach to promise obsolescence on any > timeline on the Web. Robert should not worry about real browser implementors > breaking content by removing sync XHR -- to do so would be to lose market > share. > > In this light, WHATWG should avoid making indefinite-timescale, over-ambitious > assertions. Hear hear. Indeed, a large part of moving to a "living standard" model is all about maintaining the agility to respond to changes to avoid having to make this very kind of assertion. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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