On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Brendan Eich wrote: > > Also (I am a WHATWG cofounder) it is overreach to promise obsolescence on any > timeline on the Web. Robert should not worry about real browser implementors > breaking content by removing sync XHR -- to do so would be to lose market > share. > > In this light, WHATWG should avoid making indefinite-timescale, over-ambitious > assertions.
Hear hear. Indeed, a large part of moving to a "living standard" model is all about maintaining the agility to respond to changes to avoid having to make this very kind of assertion. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'