On Mar 5, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: >> I definitely think that we should have some backwards compat shim in place >> for quite some time and evangelize heavily in the mean time, and hopefully >> one day we will be able to completely remove those shims... :/ > > I don't really have faith in our ability to "evangelize heavily" on this > issue (outside of what we've already done) without flipping the switch. > This is why I want to ship it, figure out which sites are broken, and only > put in shims if we encounter breakage that can't be easily fixed by telling > the relevant web authors to fix their site.
Our market research tells us that most people on the web have Firefox installed - so the fight on desktop isn't over users, per se, it's over usage. I believe (intuition, not data) that busted sites are very much a thing that pushes those users to launch another browser. Each time they do, there's some <100% chance that we get them back. I know that the precautionary principle can be paralytic but, in the absence of a significant win, I agree with Ehsan and Benjamin here that I'd much rather shim this than "see what breaks." J --- Johnathan Nightingale VP Firefox Engineering @johnath _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
