The concern here isn't with the future versions of Edge or Firefox but rather with the content that may be relying on this feature even unintentionally. Removing a JS method or object is very high risk because that could result in an immediate JS exception and break a key functionality of a website.
This is why HTML and DOM standards has a bunch of methods that don't do anything like Range's detach: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-range-detach - R. Niwa On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:54 AM Frédéric Wang <fw...@igalia.com> wrote: > Patch for Firefox was uploaded 4 years ago and they announced plan for > removal at that time. We pinged Mozilla some weeks ago about it, they > landed the patch and announced it: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1133175 > > https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2019/hasextension-has-been-removed-from-some-svg-interfaces/ > > https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2015/several-properties-will-be-removed-from-svgsvgelement/ > > I didn't check Edge, but Microsoft is migrating to Chromium so that's not > going to be there in future versions. > > On 07/06/2019 20:40, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > > Does Edge support it? When did Firefox remove this feature? > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 1:55 AM Frédéric Wang <fw...@igalia.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 4 years ago, the SVG WG resolved to remove SVGTests.hasExtension due to lack >> of use and being a poor API. >> It was removed from Chromium at that time and has been removed from Firefox >> recently. >> >> I'm not sure whether the WebKit community is willing to keep that feature. >> Anyway I opened a bug entry to track possible removal: >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198652 >> >> -- >> Frédéric Wang >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev >> > -- > - R. Niwa > > > -- > Frédéric Wang > >
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