On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Gavin Sharp <ga...@gavinsharp.com> wrote: >> Indeed. Somewhat off-topic for this thread, but I think this "let's >> provide primitives and let other people build higher-level libraries" >> trend for Web platform features is pretty dangerous. > > On the other hand, I think that the approach of "spec and build 100 > narrowly-focused features to solve 100 similar-but-different use-cases", as > followed by (e.g.) CSS to date, is also dangerous. > > "Guess what the right feature is, build it, and ship it, because you can't > prototype solutions on top of the existing platform" is dangerous too.
It's certainly a balancing act :) I think we've been swinging a bit too far towards letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, is all. Gavin _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
