On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:57:17 +0200, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyl...@csail.mit.edu> wrote:

(12/06/18 22:45), Simon Pieters wrote:
I think we should instead either fix the old API (if it turns out to not
Break the Web) or live with past mistake (if it turns out it does). To
find out whether it Breaks the Web (and the breakage can't be evanged),
I suggest we ship the backwards-incompatible change to querySelector()
in nightly/aurora (or equivalent) in one or more browsers for some time.

I didn't read through all the QSA threads, but isn't the function name
itself a mistake that many people don't want to live with?

We have lots of shipped APIs with worse names. I think we should live with past mistakes, try not to make them again, and move on.

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software

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