On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Drew Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm surprised to see these objections coming up now, weeks after the > original discussion, and only after my patch has landed in the tree. > Sorry, I seemed to have missed that thread. I did however file a bug as soon as the first runtime switch went in. > That said, I agree that in an ideal world, we'd hide window.audio, shared > workers, notifications, local storage, databases, session storage and any > other runtime/platform-disabled API from enumerations - I just agree with > Maciej that this isn't a hugely important issue, since these features are > only runtime-disabled while under development and so not widely available > anyway. > I obviously disagree with Maciej on this. I think it is bad to break developers expectations for feature detection. > Regardless, I don't think we should rush out to roll all of those features > out of the tree, and I certainly don't think we should be singling out > SharedWorkers or WebSockets > I don't mean to single out SharedWorkers or WebSockets, but I don't see any others using the same technique (barring window.Audio, which I don't think is the same thing, but should non-the less be fixed). But, as we have many developers using the nightlies, I think this should be handled with some speed. -Sam
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