- From: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:22:40 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Rafael Weinstein <rafaelw@google.com>, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>, "Olli@pettay.fi" <olli@pettay.fi>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, Jonas Sicking <sicking@mozilla.com>, Adam Klein <adamk@google.com>
On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote: >> Does it make sense? Do you feel like I am hand-waving away any of your >> concerns? I hope not because the idea there is precisely to help address >> concerns like these (as well as many others). > > It makes sense and is doable, but given finite resources it's on > balance with everything else we work on. E.g. the effort I put into > drafting a new API and figure out the details will take away time from > improving Fetch and XMLHttpRequest. The effort Adam will put into > implementing the change and making sure it's tested will take away > time from him working on HTML templates. Etc. > > And that's not counting that we then have two ways of doing the same > thing. That we need to update documentation. That it's not backwards > compatible. I agree with Anne and others that the proposed API change is not worth the cost we have to pay at this point in time. - R. Niwa
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