On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:38 AM, François REMY < francois.remy....@outlook.com> wrote:
> Phasing out failed experiments *is* possible. I don't think a browser that > doesn't support <blink> or <marquee> or even document.layers would have a > lot of problems to view the web as it's now, yet I remember a time where > document.layers <marquee> were used quite a lot. I do think the argument > used to claim __proto__ is unfixable is somewhat wrong. > Whether or not a failed experiment can be phased out is an empirical question. The answer depends on Web content. <marquee> is essential in some locales. <blink> is already a no-op visually. I think JSC and Opera each did without mutable __proto__ for a while and ended up implementing it for Web compatibility. So the experiment has actually been carried out at least twice. Maybe things have changed, but I wouldn't bet on it. New things are added to the Web rapidly. Old things disappear slowly. -j
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