- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:33:02 +0100
- To: Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>
- Cc: Olli Pettay <olli@pettay.fi>, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
* Dimitri Glazkov wrote: >Shadow DOM and Web Components seem to have what I call the "Unicorn >Syndrome". There's a set of specs that works, proven by at least one >browser implementation and the use in the wild. It's got warts >(compromises) and some of those warts are quite ugly. Those warts weren't >there in the beginning -- they are a result of a hard, multi-year slog of >trying to make a complete system that doesn't fall over in edge cases, and >compromising. A lot. > >So there's a temptation to make new proposals (unicorns) that are >wart-free, but incomplete or not well-thought-out. Don't get me wrong. I >like new ideas. What I would like to avoid is judging a workhorse against a >unicorn. Armed with your imagination, unicorn will always win. There has never been much of a consensus on the problems that need to be solved, so it is not really surprising that a consensus-solution is not forthcoming; instead we have continous scope creep and eternal delays. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de D-10243 Berlin · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de Available for hire in Berlin (early 2015) · http://www.websitedev.de/
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