On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:53:06 +0200, Robin Berjon <ro...@berjon.com> wrote:
On Aug 9, 2012, at 02:28 , Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 8/8/12 8:23 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
If we're telling people to use that pattern, we might as well just not
prefix the API in the first place because that pattern just tells the
web developers to unilaterally unprefix the API themselves.
Yep. The only benefit of the prefixing at that point is to maybe mark
the API as experimental, if any web developers pay attention. Which I
doubt.
Trying to evangelise that something is experimental is unlikely to
succeed. But when trying out a new API people do look at the console a
lot (you tend to have to :). It might be useful to emit a warning upon
the first usage of an experimental interface, of the kind "You are using
WormholeTeleportation which is an experimental API and may change
radically at any time. You have been warned."
Actually, you should say "*will* change, and *will*stop*working* after
some time. If you don't update your code, we will break it".
cheers
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Chaals - standards declaimer
