On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/25/13 12:33 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> If a script is explicitly looking inside the shadows of unknown >> controls and checking their contents (and then failing when the >> unknown control has different contents than whatever it expected), >> something is *messed up* with that script. > > > I can 100% guarantee to you that such scripts will get written, will be > popular, and will prevent control authors from changing their > implementations while preserving the API...
FWIW, I was most ambivalent about this change. I welcome more discussion. I know Elliott and Dominic had the strongest opinions on this. :DG<
