- From: Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 16:45:58 +0300
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 5/5/12 16:18, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > If we're talking about previews, then it seems like the right solution > is to not ship prefixed stuff in final releases; just keep it in > previews. Yes, this has come up before. Getting everyone to agree on > this and stick to it is the hard part, given the benefits defecting > has. And of course authors seem to be against this approach. > > -Boris > There are several issues with this: 1. It has been mentioned in this thread that it’s against company policy of several implementors. 2. It defies the entire advantage that prefixes were supposed to bring: Getting author input for in-development features. When the feature is present only in a preview (or in a stable build, but behind a switch), the volume of author feedback declines tremendously. I believe Alex Russell has specific statistics of how big a decline we’re talking about, but I recall it’s > 90%. This would result in specs being developed almost blindly, detached from the reality of author needs. Do we want that? -- Lea Verou (http://lea.verou.me | @LeaVerou)
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