Mozilla 2:Obsolete APIs: Difference between revisions

A lightweight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments Request For Comments] protocol seems appropriate given the wide audience of Mozilla platform developers.  We need to reach out to hackers whose work is hosted at [http://addons.mozilla.org AMO], [http://mozdev.org mozdev.org], and other such sites.  We should try to reach the [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2006/12/xul_dark_matter.html XUL Dark Matter] bodies out there on the galactic rim. The goal should be to propose and discuss with plenty of time for two-way communication leading to consensus on which APIs go away, what their replacements are, and what new APIs are needed that we haven't already planned.