On Wed, 16 May 2012 06:32:51 +0200, Yehuda Katz <wyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
In the past year or so, I've participated in a number of threads that
were implicitly about adding features to browsers that would shrink the
size of existing libraries.
Inevitably, those discussions end up litigating whether making it easier
for jQuery (or some other library) to do the task is a good idea in the
first place.
I think allowing libraries to shrink is a priori a good idea. The details
become particuarly devilish when the impact of a proposed change is
unevenly distributed, making things easier for some and harder for others.
While those discussions are extremely useful, I feel it would be useful
for a group to focus on proposals that would shrink the size of existing
libraries with the implicit assumption that it was a good idea.
From a webapps perspective that would be very useful if it led to better
feedback on (or ideally more tests for) specs in development.
If there is a strong reason that people feel that a focused effort to
identify ways to shrink existing popular libraries in new browsers would
be a bad idea, I'd be very interested to hear it.
No, having a group who *do* this sounds fine. Looking forward to the
results.
cheers
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