On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > > > It seems pretty clear that multi-process UAs are refusing to implement > > the requirement. It also seems likely that more UAs will go > > multiprocess over time. Thus, it may not be possible to exit CR with > > this requirement. > > For this case, I don't see why the spec can't just describe the expected > behavior and leave it to implementations to figure out how to solve the > issue. It seems like being algorithmically over prescriptive here will > lock people into certain architectures. If the prescribed behavior > proves to be impossible to implement during CR, then we can drop back to > LC and write the algorithm to solve this in prose.
That's what the spec does. The expected behaviour can't be implemented without the performance problem for multiprocess browsers. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
