On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/12/14 03:30, Brian Smith wrote: > > I am curious about what others think. > > Sounds good, but the $64,000 question is the effect on web compat. > Clearly, you've tried to take that into account via anecdote, but > presumably not by testing? > The $64,[insert a few more zeros] question regarding web compatibility is the (not particularly visible) effect on monetization. I've been talking with folks here at Google for a little while about a coincidentally similar proposal; http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2014Dec/0027.html sketches out some of the concerns I've heard. > Perhaps we could implement this and try it on nightly and Aurora and see > what breaks. We'd need good console logging for situations where we had > changed behaviour. > I certainly don't want to discourage you from experimenting, I think that's a good thing to do! I hope, however, that you'll be able to take ecosystem/monetization/[buzzword] concerns into consideration when doing so. Those impacts aren't often clear strictly from the client side. -mike -- Mike West <[email protected]> Google+: https://mkw.st/+, Twitter: @mikewest, Cell: +49 162 10 255 91 Google Germany GmbH, Dienerstrasse 12, 80331 München, Germany Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Graham Law, Christine Elizabeth Flores (Sorry; I'm legally required to add this exciting detail to emails. Bleh.) _______________________________________________ dev-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
