On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <foolip@chromium.org> wrote: > I think we need someone to own this issue for Blink, and the DOM team led > by Dominic is the obvious candidate. Dominic, do you have someone who could > take a look at the situation and come up with a plan forward together with > engineers from the other engines? > Sure. Let me talk to Elliott next week because I'm not familiar with his plan that Anne is referring to. Could we discuss this at TPAC? (Will there be a quorum of implementers?) > FWIW, I'm skeptical about deprecation messages being able to seriously > move usage, or at least I don't think it can be the only tool if we're > serious about attempting a simplification or removal of mutation events. At > the top of my list of things to do would be to find big sites or frameworks > that use mutation events and to understand what it would take for them to > migrate. We might learn something important there, I wouldn't be surprised > if there are things missing from the web platform. > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:10 PM Olli Pettay <olli@pettay.fi> wrote: > >> The use of mutation events has gone down significantly and if we could >> get browsers other than >> just Firefox to warn about use of mutation events, the usage might go >> down even more. >> All these deprecations can't work if UAs don't warn about use of such >> features. >> >> >> -Olli >> >> >> >> On 08/23/2016 11:23 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> > Elliott, you mentioned a few times that you want to slightly change >> > the timing of mutation events. Is that still in the cards? >> > >> > I posted a summary of the current state of things around mutation >> events here: >> > >> > https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/305 >> > >> > It seems like browsers implement different subsets, so there might be >> > some room for simplification. But it doesn't seem that the use >> > counters are low enough for removal for a couple of them so we'll >> > either have to experiment with timing or just suck it up and define >> > them as-is. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> > >> > >> >
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