LGTM1 contingent on Philip's suggestion of a feature flagged rollout and the requested reviews.
On Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 8:22:41 AM UTC-7 Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > Can you upgrade the chromestatus entry to the "ship" state and fill out > all of the reviews, notably the enterprise review chip? > > The use counter is at > https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/1642 and is > around 0.001-0.003%. > > The compat risk is that code that calls pc.createDTMFSender() would start > throwing an exception, and the size of the breakage depends on whether the > exception is caught and where in the code it happens. > > Given the very low usage it doesn't seem helpful to have a deprecation > period first, but it will be important to use a runtime flag for this so > that can be turned back on with Finch if there's a problem. > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM 'Philipp Hancke' via blink-dev < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> https://github.com/webrtc/samples/pull/873 >> removed the sample for createDTMF nine years ago. Anyone who has not >> updated... >> The usual suspects (sipjs, jssip and twilio's JS) prefer the spec variant >> so this should be safe. >> >> Compared to setRemoteDescription the usage of DTMF is marginal: >> >> https://webrtchacks.github.io/chromestatus/?buckets=1642,2381,3451&start=2026-01-01 >> The RTCRtpSender.dtmf isn't clearly winning but at least it is ahead. >> >> The use counters can not tell you about callcenters running Chromebooks >> and still using the chrome-only method though. >> >> Am Mi., 9. Sept. 2026 um 12:52 Uhr schrieb Yoav Weiss (@Shopify) < >> [email protected]>: >> >>> Generally it'd be good to expand a bit about the compatibility risk >>> here. It'd odd that the section is missing. >>> >>> On Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 12:51:34 PM UTC+2 Yoav Weiss wrote: >>> >>>> Are there any usecounters indicating usage? (Or another method of >>>> estimating potential breakage) >>>> >>>> On Friday, September 4, 2026 at 12:21:47 PM UTC+2 Chromestatus wrote: >>>> >>>>> *Contact emails* >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> *Explainer* >>>>> *No information provided* >>>>> >>>>> *Specification* >>>>> https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/#dom-rtcpeerconnection >>>>> >>>>> *Summary* >>>>> This is a legacy and obsolete method that does not exist in the WebRTC >>>>> spec and the only major engine implementing it is Blink. Removing it is >>>>> part of Interop 2026. >>>>> >>>>> *Blink component* >>>>> Blink>WebRTC>PeerConnection >>>>> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3EWebRTC%3EPeerConnection%22> >>>>> >>>>> *Web Feature ID* >>>>> webrtc <https://webstatus.dev/features/webrtc> >>>>> >>>>> *Motivation* >>>>> This is a legacy and obsolete method that does not exist in the WebRTC >>>>> spec and the only major engine implementing it is Blink. Removing it is >>>>> part of Interop 2026. >>>>> >>>>> *Initial public proposal* >>>>> *No information provided* >>>>> >>>>> *Goals for experimentation* >>>>> None >>>>> >>>>> *Debuggability* >>>>> N/A >>>>> >>>>> *Requires code in //chrome?* >>>>> False >>>>> >>>>> *Tracking bug* >>>>> http://crbug.com/553274713 >>>>> >>>>> *Measurement* >>>>> https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/1642 >>>>> >>>>> *Estimated milestones* >>>>> Shipping on desktop 160 >>>>> Shipping on Android 160 >>>>> Shipping on WebView 160 >>>>> >>>>> *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status* >>>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5160724576993280?gate=5985122343059456 >>>>> >>>>> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status >>>>> <https://chromestatus.com>. >>>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/af35054b-bf48-43fd-9bcb-bb6a6cfc5682n%40chromium.org >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/af35054b-bf48-43fd-9bcb-bb6a6cfc5682n%40chromium.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "blink-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CADxkKiJa6SqiyekJvCXw8qWZrn-O5KYcDnhsLGHvbT1URardHA%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CADxkKiJa6SqiyekJvCXw8qWZrn-O5KYcDnhsLGHvbT1URardHA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/87d9ae6f-ec0e-40ec-83d5-af43a5956f22n%40chromium.org.
