I'd say this is far enough out towards extreme edge case land that we can be a bit more aggressive here compared to general feature removals. So agreed.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Seth Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 2, 2015, at 7:16 AM, L. David Baron <[email protected]> wrote: >>> IMHO, "I haven't seen" is a weak argument. When we remove features >>> that are exposed to the web in some form, it's always a good idea to >>> gather some telemetry first so that we know what the actual impact >>> will probably be (there is some bias to the Telemetry audience >>> already, of course). Let's see that we have data instead of >>> assumptions and do not run into surprises. People have been known to >>> do crazy things in some corners of the web. >> >> I don't think that' necessary for features that aren't supported >> across other browser engines, which I believe is the case here. > > That is true. IE does not support this feature at all. > > I completely concur that in general we should gather telemetry before > removing a feature that’s exposed to the web, but I just don’t see it as > adding much value for this *particular* case. > > - Seth > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform -- jst _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
