Hi Jonathan,

> On Jan 3, 2018, at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Kingston <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a small risk of breakage that we could decide to delay and instead
> implement telemetry. However if the site is feature testing rather than
> user agent testing there shouldn't be an issue here. As this API throws
> errors there is likelihood websites account for it throwing anyway. I would
> prefer however to let the removal ride the trains due to it's low risk
> before 61 so our ESR doesn't have it.

I’m never confident sites are doing feature detection or handling errors… I 
like the approach of  disabling a feature (behind a pref) in non-Release (Beta 
and Nightly) for a few releases, to see what surfaces in bug reports.

> - Is only implemented by Firefox

(It was also in Opera Presto 11.60+, RIP)

--
Mike Taylor
Web Compat, Mozilla


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