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Discussion on "Don't create globals with common names for speculative polyfills" #13

Closed DavidBruant closed 7 years ago

DavidBruant commented 7 years ago

A while ago, I suggested that prefixing with _ should be enough to distinguish a namespace that web devs could use without fear of stepping on future web standards.

It has not received valid criticism.

triblondon commented 7 years ago

I won't weigh in on how valid the criticism is, but it looks like it's received a lot of feedback! I'd say that an underscore prefix would be a good example of adhering to our recommendation here, and I'm not sure there's any need for the TAG finding to specifically assign a particular namespace for non-standard stuff (which would in any case leave us in bikeshed hell until the end of time).

triblondon commented 7 years ago

@DavidBruant I think it's overwhelmingly likely that other TAG members will agree with me that we should not be trying to own a namespace via a TAG finding. If you want me to take it to the group anyway I'll do it, but otherwise let's focus on your other issues.