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That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Why would that matter? That would encourage me the naming choice was in the right direction!
by eximius 9y ago
That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Why would that matter? That would encourage me the naming choice was in the right direction!
- thaiphanvevo 9y agoLots of websites still use Prototype.js. Magento still has it as a dependency. Don't want to break the web!
- eximius 9y agoWould it break the web though? Wouldn't they just override the native implementation with a JS one?
- curtisblaine 9y agoThen the two implementations would probably be incompatible (different signatures, different implementation / return values) and would cause unexpected errors down the chain. So, essentially, breaking the web and making it difficult to fix it.
- curtisblaine 9y agoWould it be bad though? A lot of APIs change in the browser space. WebRTC was broken a hundred times. Libraries depending on Prototype would probably be old, maybe insecure. You need to break it from time to time, you can't be backwards compatible all the time.