- From: Andrew Betts <andrew.betts@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:46:53 +0900
- To: www-tag@w3.org
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At a W3C Japan meeting in Tokyo yesterday, which I attended at Keio University, polyfills were mentioned frequently (I noticed this particularly because it was one of the few words I could understand when presentations were in Japanese). Satoru Takagi from KDDI (a large mobile operator) subsequently suggested to me that W3C could provide an 'official' source of spec-compliant polyfills for new features (something like "polyfills.w3.org"), and adopting polyfill.io as a starting point for this would seem to be a sensible approach. His slides: http://www.slideshare.net/totipalmate/svg2-candidate-recommendation-in-english As the maintainer of polyfill.io, I'm open to this idea. There's precedent for this in things like the validator services W3C operates, and there would likely be huge developer interest and adoption. W3C could bring governance and administration support to the project and the existing participants could continue to perform their existing roles. I mentioned it to Mike Smith at the event, and he was skeptical, but I thought it worth asking if anyone thinks this is worth pursuing. Cheers, Andrew
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