Amazing! Thanks for running these queries!!
Please keep a close eye for related bugs as this will reach stable, just to
make sure we're on it if unexpected breakage occurs

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 19:53 Evan Stade <est...@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 9:29 AM Evan Stade <est...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 1:33 AM Yoav Weiss (@Shopify) <
>> yoavwe...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for sending this!
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 3:31 AM Evan Stade <est...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> > having the ability to kill-switch this with a flag would be advisable
>>>>
>>>> Is that possible? My understanding is that it is not. If it were, then
>>>> it would have been gated behind the (never-exposed) flag to begin with.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe you're right and we don't currently have the means to put an
>>> IDL inheritance change behind a flag.
>>> That's the reason we shipped this inheritance in the first place 4 years
>>> ago.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Have we done any kind of research to determine that sites weren't
>>>> attempting to use this?
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean attempt to use in its intended fashion, or attempt to use
>>>> it for browser engine detection? For the former: I think it's impossible
>>>> because it never even got to dev trial. For the latter, are there popular
>>>> libraries out there we can look at? This one
>>>> <https://github.com/isocroft/browsengine> does not use it.
>>>>
>>>> Googling for "navigator.storage.addeventlistener" turns up only the
>>>> explainer for the Storage Pressure event. "navigator.storage instanceof
>>>> EventTarget" turns up nothing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's very promising. For extra confidence, you could query the HTTP
>>> archive for the above string (or "StorageManager instanceof EventTarget").
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. I'm not sure if this is still possible to do. This doc
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cpjWFoXBiuFYI4zb9I7wHs7uYZ0ntbOgLwH-mgqXdEM/edit?usp=sharing>
>> suggests that crawling all response bodies is discouraged, and in practice,
>> it seems to no longer be possible as the bodies are no longer in any table
>> I can find. "Querying" now consists of adding scripts to the crawler that
>> will take 30 days to return any data. (Would be happy if I am wrong about
>> this.)
>>
>
> OK, hurray, I am wrong. With the help of the archivist I was able to find
> tables that still contain response_body and are reasonably responsive to
> queries, and there are 0 hits among the top 100k sites
> for 'navigator.storage instanceof', 'StorageManager instanceof',
> or 'navigator.storage.addEventListener' as of 2024/10/1
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -- Evan Stade
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 6:49 PM Mike Taylor <miketa...@chromium.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/30/24 7:54 PM, Chromestatus wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Contact emails est...@chromium.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Specification https://storage.spec.whatwg.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Summary
>>>>>
>>>>> navigator.storage is no longer an EventTarget navigator.storage was
>>>>> made an EventTarget for the Storage Pressure Event, which never made it
>>>>> past the prototype phase:
>>>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5666274359115776 This dead code is
>>>>> being removed and as a result, navigator.storage will no longer extend
>>>>> EventTarget.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Blink component Blink>Storage>Quota
>>>>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EStorage%3EQuota>
>>>>>
>>>>> TAG review None
>>>>>
>>>>> TAG review status Not applicable
>>>>>
>>>>> Risks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Interoperability and Compatibility
>>>>>
>>>>> This change is technically web-facing, but it brings Chromium in line
>>>>> with other browser vendors. It's very unlikely any site used the
>>>>> functionality because Chromium never fired an event at navigator.storage
>>>>> except in developer builds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bringing us in line with other browsers is good, but not necessarily a
>>>>> guarantee that things won't go wrong. Have we done any kind of research to
>>>>> determine that sites weren't attempting to use this?
>>>>>
>>>>> At the very least, having the ability to kill-switch this with a flag
>>>>> would be advisable - right now this PSA suggests otherwise.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Gecko*: No signal
>>>>>
>>>>> *WebKit*: No signal
>>>>>
>>>>> *Web developers*: No signals
>>>>>
>>>>> *Other signals*:
>>>>>
>>>>> WebView application risks
>>>>>
>>>>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such
>>>>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>>>>>
>>>>> None
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Debuggability
>>>>>
>>>>> None
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows,
>>>>> Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)? Yes
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
>>>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>>>>> ? Yes
>>>>>
>>>>> Flag name on chrome://flags None
>>>>>
>>>>> Finch feature name None
>>>>>
>>>>> Non-finch justification None
>>>>>
>>>>> Requires code in //chrome? False
>>>>>
>>>>> Estimated milestones
>>>>> Shipping on desktop 132
>>>>> Shipping on Android 132
>>>>>
>>>>> Anticipated spec changes
>>>>>
>>>>> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or
>>>>> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues
>>>>> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may
>>>>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure 
>>>>> of
>>>>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
>>>>> None
>>>>>
>>>>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
>>>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5132158480678912?gate=5665876618248192
>>>>>
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