- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:47:16 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Majid Valipour <majidvp@chromium.org>
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > I'd strongly recommend against adding new methods. It'll mean we now have > two different ways to do the same thing, which means more bugs, which > means less interoperability, more confusing behaviour for authors, more to > document, etc. If the existing method didn't have the flaw with the title argument I wouldn't have suggested it. Also, since they both built upon the same primitive I think we'd be okay in the bugs and interop department. > I think the original approach of adding a fourth argument is much better. > > It's also a better API in general, since the URL should always be given. > If we had a one-argument form with a dictionary, people would consider not > giving the URL but just disabling scrolling, which is suboptimal. You can require arguments with dictionaries. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
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