Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:36:48 -0700
On Tuesday 27 August 2024 13:28:52 GMT-7 Tiago Freire wrote:
> It's a clear-cut case of a feature that industry pretty much converged on,
> and the standard lagged behind.
I don't think it's that clear-cut. It's a feature that exists with the same
name in multiple implementations with similar but potentially subtly different
behaviours. Standardising would imply ironing them out so everyone has the
same expectations.
Mind you, these are not reasons to avoid doing it.
> It's a clear-cut case of a feature that industry pretty much converged on,
> and the standard lagged behind.
I don't think it's that clear-cut. It's a feature that exists with the same
name in multiple implementations with similar but potentially subtly different
behaviours. Standardising would imply ironing them out so everyone has the
same expectations.
Mind you, these are not reasons to avoid doing it.
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering
Received on 2024-08-27 20:36:56