> I blogged about that when we kicked off the additional platform
> efforts, though it's probably a good idea to say something about it on
> the site as well.
Oh, that's where that phrasing was. I kept looking for that when we
were having the Omnibox click-to-select discussion on Linux
-JT
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Nico Weber <tha...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> > An external contributor was recently surprised that a change tested
>>> > on linux was reverted because it broke the build on windows.
>>> > (His mental model was that linux developers don't have to
>>> > worry about other platforms, that's what windows developers are for.)
>>> > [...]
>>> > Anyone think we need to add some text that emphasizes that developers
>>> > need
>>> > to worry about more than just their own platform?
>>>
>>> Yes--since "One product, multiple platforms" is also a core principle
>>> in practice even if it didn't make it into Ben's list. I'll volunteer
>>> to write up something on the topic this weekend if no one else beats
>>> me to it.
>>
>> While you're on it, could you add something like
>> "In general, be consistent with the platform. We believe that users
>> switch between applications more often than between operating systems, so it
>> is more important to be consistent with the platform than to be consistent
>> with chrome on other platforms. This is not true in areas where chrome tries
>> to innovate, or where the platform behavior is measurably more confusing for
>> users of that platform."
>> or similar. As far as I understand, that's a guiding principle for the
>> cross-platform work, and having that somewhere I can link to would be
>> useful.
>> Nico
>
>
>
> --
> "Portability is generally the result of advance planning rather than trench
> warfare involving #ifdef" -- Henry Spencer (1992)
>
> >
>
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