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Can you imagine the size of the CSS spec if any old brainless mutt could add to it on a few weeks' notice for the past 15 years? At which point, creating a fres
by hosay123 14y ago
Can you imagine the size of the CSS spec if any old brainless mutt could add to it on a few weeks' notice for the past 15 years? At which point, creating a fresh browser implementation quickly becomes insurmountable.
- gsnedders 14y agoCreating a fresh browser implementation is pretty much already insurmountable! The last time anyone major implemented a browser from scratch (at least in a major sense) was Mozilla in the late 90s: everyone since has just built on previous work, as even though people may hate design decisions (that made sense a decade ago!) the cost of starting again is too high.
- astrodust 14y agoI never said that they'd all be approved. Surely an extension request from someone the committee had never heard of would be rejected, but from the WebKit or Mozilla crew they would give it consideration. It would help break up the formalization process into smaller components. Even then, until it's absorbed into the standard there's no obligation to implement that property. It would just mean you could be assured that if your proposal did make it into the standard, you would already be using the correct name.