: for instance, we derived the Web Components deliverables by looking at frameworks & experiments
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: but in many areas we haven't had even that level of extensibility (see: layout/raster/composite) /cc
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: these are the areas where we have the *least* easily understandable evidence about what to add. /cc
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: see also: Gears/AppCache: we learned those high-level features badly designed at multi-year delay. /cc
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: so if we make mistakes in ways that take years to find out, we should hedge against that strongly. /cc
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: how? By delivering low-level features first and *then* learning from ecosystem to add high-level /cc
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: we can use those same years to learn what the *right* high-level form looks like. /cc
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: meanwhile, we've enabled fundamentally new capabilities that allow the platform to compete. /cc
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: the alternative is to block that capability entirely if it's wrong in any way. A major failure. /cc
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: that's why mistaken to ask for new features in declarative form first. Bad track record. /cc
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: we are not omniscient. We need evidence and iteration w/o starving devs of capabilities
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: hubris in trying to design from the high level w/o a body of evidence to point at. /cc
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