@slightlylate @aerotwist @brucel Ehhhh, even if we had the preloader open, loading JS over network to do preloading defeats the point.
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@tabatkins : wait, what? If I could send code inline to the parser thread, we'd be miles ahead. BE CREATIVE!!! /cc@aerotwist@brucel1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate@aerotwist@brucel You wanna force everyone to embed inline code for respimg switching? That's a big doctype...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tabatkins : wait, why would I want to "force" that? I'm just saying that it's BS to say extensibility can't work. /cc@aerotwist@brucel1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate@aerotwist@brucel I just mean that "just use JS" isn't an answer - we could have *experimented* by using preloader JS, but...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate@aerotwist@brucel ...we'd have to eventually bake something in regardless, because working with the preloader is annoying.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tabatkins : of course we would, but we'd have a shitload more data about what that thing *should do*. /cc@aerotwist@brucel2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tabatkins : and wouldn't be left high & dry in the meantime. /cc@aerotwist@brucel1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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The belief that standards bodies will get it right without experiment or data is not even wrong. /cc
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@slightlylate@aerotwist@brucel When people ask "why not JS/CSS?" they're not talking about exploratory experiments.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@tabatkins : Only shipping code can create progress. Specs only accelerate it, they don't create it.
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@slightlylate@tabatkins@aerotwist@brucel To me "Extensible Web" doesn't mean we ship *only* primitives and let JS do the rest1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate@tabatkins@aerotwist@brucel It means we ship lower layer primitives *alongside* (or maybe just before) higher layer features2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes - 8 more replies
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