- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:51:21 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 6/3/11 7:22 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> We'd love that to work, but it unfortunately allows the ambiguity >> where a selector can look like a property: > > Yes, I understand that. > > My point was that your proposal doesn't define a processing model, so if I > wanted to, say, do something like _implement_ it or something daft like that > then the only way to do it is to go and ask the Tab Atkins Oracle a bunch of > questions. Questions which will be answered with examples which I will then > have to synthesize into an attempt to guess the oracle's internal state. > > It would be much simpler if I didn't have to black-box reverse-engineer your > brain here. You won't have to when there's an actual spec. This was a basic proposal for the WG's consideration. I sincerely hope you don't generally try implementing things from emailed proposals. ^_^ Luckily, the WG approved this to be worked on, so I'll start writing it soon. ~TJ
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