On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com> wrote: > ... Hanging "but"?! Oh lordy. Oooh, let me turn this into a contemplative > sidebar opportunity. > > Shadow DOM and Web Components seem to have what I call the "Unicorn > Syndrome". There's a set of specs that works, proven by at least one > browser implementation and the use in the wild. It's got warts > (compromises) and some of those warts are quite ugly. Those warts weren't > there in the beginning -- they are a result of a hard, multi-year slog of > trying to make a complete system that doesn't fall over in edge cases, and > compromising. A lot. > > So there's a temptation to make new proposals (unicorns) that are > wart-free, but incomplete or not well-thought-out. Don't get me wrong. I > like new ideas. What I would like to avoid is judging a workhorse against a > unicorn. Armed with your imagination, unicorn will always win. > I shouldn't have sent this. It was uncool of me. My bad. Please accept my apologies. :DG<Received on Friday, 6 February 2015 04:50:02 UTC
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