- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 11:49:24 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 5/8/12 9:23 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > If a harmful spec has proceeded to the stage where there are two > independent roughly interoperable implementations and the creators of > those implementations want to ship, is there really any way to put the > cat back into bag by the working group speaking against a feature? > That is, if Maciej's condition (B) holds, isn't the feature pretty > much a done deal anyway to such an extent that it's futile to try to > undo its existence? Is there a historical example of a case where > condition (B) was true and a W3C working group managed to purge the > feature from the Web platform to such an extent that other vendors > didn't need to implement it and could still successfully render the > Web? window.event comes to mind. -Boris
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