Since the deprecation of this feature the usage of this feature has reached near 0 numbers in our usage counters[1]. 0.003% based on 64 beta [2]
The specification has removed xml:base many years ago and this change has an advantage of code simplification and also reduces the need to compute base paths in the DOM. IE, Safari and Chrome don’t support this feature so we should remove this feature from the web platform given it’s declining usage. Mozilla attempted to remove this before[3] previously however the feed reader appears to have been a blocker for it’s removal due to xml:base usage within RSS feeds. However this has since been removed and no longer a blocker. Kind regards Jonathan [1] https://telemetry.mozilla.org/new-pipeline/dist.html#!cumulative=0&end_date=2018-11-26&include_spill=0&keys=__none__!__none__!__none__&max_channel_version=nightly%252F65&measure=USE_COUNTER2_DEPRECATED_XMLBaseAttribute_DOCUMENT&min_channel_version=nightly%252F62&processType=*&product=Firefox&sanitize=1&sort_keys=submissions&start_date=2018-10-22&table=0&trim=1&use_submission_date=0 [2] http://georgf.github.io/usecounters/#kind=page&group=DEPRECATED&channel=beta&version=64 [3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/1JDnJWefe1E/discussion _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
