Section on polyfills and prollyfills

[marcoscaceres]

The AWWW should include a section about polyfills that describes the role that those have in keeping the Web usable for millions of people - particularly with regards to jQuery, and the ability to override native functionality to correct browser bugs. This should include guidance on how APIs should be designed to be polyfillable.

There should also be a mention of prollyfills and their role in evolving the Web platform in a backwards/future compatible way.

[torgo]

As discussed on yesterday's call, agreed. Who would be willing to take an action to do this?

[torgo]

Are we really going with "prollyfills" by he way?

[marcoscaceres]

It's not really up to us. It's terminology being used by the community... of course, it started as a bit of a joke, but the distinction between a polyfill and prollyfill is becoming more solid in people's minds now.

See discussion happening here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-nextweb/2013Jul/0026.html

[torgo]

Recognize it's not our call but I'm worried about proliferation of more insey jargon as opposed to straight-forward names that travel well across languages and cultures. Don't want to wade into the discussions on public-nextweb until I wrap my head around the topic some more. In the mean time, what would be good to discuss here might be the scope of the AWWW section on polyfills. Should the AWWW adendum also contain a section on web components?

[marcoscaceres]

It could, but it's hard to discuss web components in the context of the web at large as they are not very prolific yet. As an enabler of extensibility, however, it might be good to discuss them... but we don't know yet if they are good or not because not that many developers are using them (could turn into a complete unforeseen disaster... not that that's ever happened with Web stuff before, just sayin;) )

[marcoscaceres]

BTW, I understand what you are saying about poly/prolyfills. We don't need to speak in terms of them, but at least acknowledge that those techniques are colloquially referred to as such. I'm sure other communities use similar techniques to work around platform versions, etc.

[torgo]

We created a finding on this topic.

[dbaron]

Finding: Polyfills and the evolution of the Web

[Aleksandr14881]

Ну как то так