Re: W3C Polyfill service?

I'm not sure the W3C is really suited to the task of running web-critical,
high-performance infrastructure.

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, Travis Leithead <
travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:

> To some extent, the W3C’s investment in web-platform-tests is a similar
> thing—focused on getting interoperability through testing. What would be
> the goal of a polyfil repository? Would they count as an implementation of
> a feature? Could they also be used to help the testing effort? If so, then
> I would love to see them integrated into web-platform-tests.
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> (On a side note, I resorted to a polyfill to help test the DOM Parsing and
> Serialization spec—it proved very helpful for “debugging” the spec’s
> algorithms.)
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> *From:* Andrew Betts [mailto:andrew.betts@gmail.com
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2016 1:47 AM
> *To:* www-tag@w3.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','www-tag@w3.org');>
> *Subject:* W3C Polyfill service?
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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).
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> 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.
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> His slides:
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> http://www.slideshare.net/totipalmate/svg2-candidate-
> recommendation-in-english
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> Andrew
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