- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 22:23:57 -0500
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: Daniel Glazman <daniel@glazman.org>, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, Peter Linss <peter.linss@hp.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Why not have a fast way of registering a new proposal by a vendor and holding it with a commitment to standardize it soon as practical? Would it be abused? Would public review and the scorn of developers prevent a company from grabbing a cool word for a stupid idea, etc? Do browser vendors feel they have a choice, or do they partly feel that they *ought* to use -vendor-... strings? Tim On 2011-11 -08, at 20:39, L. David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 2011-11-08 21:53 +0100, Daniel Glazman wrote: >> The only thing I know is the following one : what happened with >> -*-border-radius was lame and we decided to implement new processes >> to avoid a fiasco of same magnitude. Then CSS Gradients arrived >> and browser vendors did the very same mistake. I think it's good to >> have the TAG in the loop here. Feedback #1 from Web Agencies at this >> time is the pain it is to deal with multiple prefixed versions of the >> same property... > > They have the choice not to use the prefixed properties. Given that > they've made that choice to do so *despite* their complaints about > it, I suspect they might not like a solution that takes away their > ability to make that choice. > > (I agree with the feedback that we need to be better about > standardizing high-demand features quickly. I think we can do that > by keeping them limited in scope and not adding and stabilizing > every addition anybody asks for before moving to CR. In both of the > cases you mention, the group resolved to advance quickly and the > editor then went through all the comments made on the spec and added > a bunch of requested features, delaying advancement to CR. Those > additions would be better made by developing the next level in > parallel.) > > -David > > -- > 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 > 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 > >
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