On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Chris Rogers <crog...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonas, sorry about the late reply - comments inline: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Firefox 6 is going to add support for the the new responseType and >> response properties. We would have liked to release these as >> moz-prefixed properties, but it appears that webkit has already >> shipped them unprefixed, thus there's not much point in prefixing. >> Both because we likely can't fix bugs in them anyway, and because >> sites have already started depending on them. >> > > > >> >> I'd really like to reiterate that we need to be careful about >> releasing newly minted APIs unprefixed. Even in the case where we here >> on the list agree on the desired behavior. The Blob.slice mess (which >> we fortunately managed to save last minute) is a good example of why >> we should give API time to mature before unprefixing. >> > > Sorry, about that. I thought we had good agreement about the API. > Even on things where there's agreement here it's a good idea to prefix since once we reach a wider audience (non W3C people as well as developers) there's a good change that problems will be found. / Jonas