On 9/6/2013 7:06 AM, Matt Basta wrote:
The point has been missed: Brick, in many cases, *is* the polyfill.
Brick makes doing things that developer want and need easier, because
the web is a blank slate and developers don't want to start from
scratch. Firefox and Firefox OS still don't support <input
type="date"> and nobody wants to use jQuery UI, but you can use the
<x-datepicker> component instead. I'd expect to see brick components
that polyfill the incredibly frustrating lack of other HTML5 inputs
in Gecko (<input type="color">, anybody?), and I'd also expect to see
Brick fill in some of the controls that Android and iOS provide to
app developers that are either non-existant on the web or not
developer friendly (slide-out hamburger menus, anybody?). Potch has
informally demoed to me some really cool components that, IIRC, solve
some of the biggest issues that Facebook brought up when they
switched their apps from HTML5 to native.

Why don't we have <input type="date"> and <input type="color">? Who is determining priorities for Gecko features these days? Why are we building polyfills rather than implementing the standard?

- A
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