On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Brian Kardell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does it make sense? Do you feel like I am hand-waving away any of your >> concerns? I hope not because the idea there is precisely to help address >> concerns like these (as well as many others). > > It makes sense and is doable, but given finite resources it's on > balance with everything else we work on. E.g. the effort I put into > drafting a new API and figure out the details will take away time from > improving Fetch and XMLHttpRequest. The effort Adam will put into > implementing the change and making sure it's tested will take away > time from him working on HTML templates. Etc. > > And that's not counting that we then have two ways of doing the same > thing. That we need to update documentation. That it's not backwards > compatible. I agree with Anne and others that the proposed API change is not worth the cost we have to pay at this point in time. - R. Niwa
