- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:19:22 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: whatwg List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "Gordon P. Hemsley" <gphemsley@gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2012-11-19 19:27, Adam Barth wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2012-11-17 19:17, Adam Barth wrote: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>> I would prefer if the spec described what implementations actually do >>>> rather than your opinion about what they should do. To answer your >>>> specific questions: >>>> ... >>> >>> >>> That works well if something is widely supported already. It works less >>> well >>> if you have one initial and one incomplete implementation only. >> >> >> Which implementation is initial and which is incomplete? AFAIK, both >> IE and Chromium consider their implementation of this feature done. > > "initial" -> the one done first, and by the vendor that invented the > functionality > > "incomplete" -> the one that copies one part and not the other part of he > behavior of the initial implementation I can't speak for the IE team, but I can tell you that I don't view the Chromium implementation as either initial or incomplete. >>> 1) Don't bother dropping the "X-". Everyone who implements this >>>> >>>> feature uses the X- and dropping it is just going to cause unnecessary >>>> interoperability problems. >>> >>> There's no *need* to drop it, but if research on this topic leads to the >>> conclusion that the functionality is needed, but the current X- prototype >>> isn't sufficient anyway it might be worth considering. >> >> Currently, I don't see a use case for dropping the X- prefix. Perhaps >> there's one I don't understand? > > A use case for *renaming* (which might be more than dropping the prefix) > actually would be saving bytes on the wire. Another one would be to make it > possible to make incompatible changes to the field value syntax, when > needed. I don't have any interest in making any incompatible changes to this feature in Chromium at this time. Adam
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