- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:21:39 -0400
In http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-September/023192.html Robert O'Callahan wrote: > The unlocking around plugin calls is a problem, but it seems to me that any > given library function is much more likely start with a plugin-based > implementation and eventually switch to a non-plugin-based implementation > than the other way around. So there would still be a point in time when the library was using plugins on some browsers but not on others -- and you lose the cross-browser advantage that the library was supposed to give you. > Beyond plugins, I hope and expect that library functions don't suddenly add > calls to alert(), showModalDialog() or synchronous XHR. I would expect that at least some such calls are typically on error paths that don't often get taken or heavily tested. -jJ
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