On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This makes sense in terms of |if (Components)| browser detection. But if a
> site is grabbing interface constants off of nsIDOMFoo interfaces, it seems
> very unlikely that said site would work in another browser.
This line of reasoning can be dangerous, given the presence of
browser-specific code (e.g. if (firefox) { /* use Ci! */ }). But we're
in "estimates of likelihood of bustage based on intuition" territory,
which can make it difficult to have a productive debate. I imagine
we'll get better data about the potential for bustage impact once this
gets onto Aurora and/or Beta, but prior experience with this kind of
thing has shown that those channels often aren't sufficient for
detecting high-impact web compat changes, so we need to be careful...
Gavin
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