On Apr 22, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Simon Fraser <simon.fra...@apple.com> wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 19, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Timothy Hatcher <timo...@apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 19, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Bear Travis <betra...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What do folks think about adding a mechanism for users to toggle features 
>>>> like this on in WebKit nightlies? I don't have a definite approach yet, 
>>>> but wanted to float the idea for feedback.
>>> 
>>> I like the idea. Having things off for everyone but the engineers is a bad 
>>> approach and misses out on testing.
>>> 
>>> We could have WebKit modify Safari's Develop menu to provide additional 
>>> items to toggle. Safari provides an "Enable WebGL" item, we could inject 
>>> more items next to it.
>> 
>> On Mac, we could at the very last use 'defaults write' to toggle 
>> experimental runtime-enabled features.
> 
> One problem is that most CSS-exposed experimental features are not 
> runtime-switchable. We'd have to do a bunch of work in the parser and style 
> resolver to make this possible.

I think it is worth it to do that. Not just because of CSS Exclusions, but for 
future properties as well. 

Greetings,
Dirk

> Simon
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