as the horse rightly pointed out ... please let me reformulate last
sentence:

And yes IE team, the prefix would be lowercase as any other browser is
doing, thanks.

( no MSWhateverItIs, thanks!)


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
[email protected]> wrote:

> It seems to me that once again early adoption of non complete standards
> wins in the short term, compromising the long one "forever" ...
>
> Although IE11 promised incremental updates too and create an alias on the
> global scope is not the end of the world, IMO.
>
> We are all use to write abominations such `var url = window.webkitURL ||
> windows.mozURL || windows.URL` and similar stuff all over, the reason
> utilities libraries are often preferred, so while I am very happy that IE
> team finally has been able to catch up and be even in front of other
> browsers, I do believe that incomplete specifications or those still under
> discussion should be adopted with prefixes until finalized in their form in
> order to promote less mistakes in the long term.
>
> And yes IE team, the prefix would lowercase as any other Browser is doing,
> thanks.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Best Regards
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Brendan and I had a side conversation the next day we should have brought
>> to the attention of the group. In the main discussion, we said we needed to
>> hear back from Luke, since "WeakMap" had already shipped in IE11. The next
>> day we did, and Brendan & I agreed to drop the renaming. Which,
>> fortunately, is also in agreement with Arv and Rick. WeakMap / WeakSet it
>> is.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Erik Arvidsson <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At the last f2f2 we talked about renaming WeakMap to SideTable. We
>>>> postponed the discussion, saying that we would get back to it later. We
>>>> never did.
>>>>
>>>> I would like us to keep the name WeakMap as it is. We didn't really
>>>> take WeakSet into account. If we rename WeakMap we would need to rename
>>>> WeakSet too and I like the current Map/Set analogy.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'll second this with the added comment that after four weeks, SideTable
>>> doesn't sound any better or worse than WeakMap.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
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>>     --MarkM
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