- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:04:56 -0400
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 10/3/12 10:19 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > That's unfortunate. It's one of the most pathologically broken behaviors > on the platform; now there will be nothing discouraging people from using > it. I think this was a net win despite the cost to interoperability. That is as may be, but: 1) Every single other UA implemented the global scope polluter in standards mode. 2) The spec called for it to be implemented in standards mode. Repeated requests that the spec be changed got denied with "see point 1". 3) Repeated requests for other UAs to drop support for the global scope polluter in standards mode were met with either silence or great surprise that Gecko had the behavior it did, followed by silence. 4) The growing number of web developers who only bother testing in WebKit meant that there were more and more sites that were breaking in Gecko due to relying on the global scope polluter. 5) Other browser vendors were putting out conformance and performance tests that relied on the global scope polluter to function. I decided it wasn't worth punishing our users further if no one else in the world cared about this. -Boris
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