An update on Object.observe deprecation: it will still be on in v8 4.9
(Chromium M49), but with a deprecation message in the console.

I still aim to un-ship it in future releases, and am working with the Blink
API owners and other interested parties to develop that plan.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Adam Klein <ad...@chromium.org> wrote:

> I have not looked at httparchive. Given that this feature was only shipped
> in Chrome, I wouldn't expect it to be used by sites on the open web
> (without a compatibility library like observe-js).
>
> There's still the chance that we'll run into problems with Chrome-specific
> apps or extensions, and that's part of the reason I want to start canarying
> ASAP.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Chris Harrelson <chris...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Have you tried an httparchive or other search to see if this would break
>> a lot of sites?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:33 PM Adam Klein <ad...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Until the code is gone, you can enable it in Chrome with:
>>>
>>> --js-flags=--harmony-object-observe
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:17 PM, <inian1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Will there be a way to locally turn-on support for Object.observe? I am
>>>> using it for some analysis and would like to enable it on my version of
>>>> Chrome.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:56:51 UTC+8, Adam Klein wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [bcc blink-dev]
>>>>>
>>>>> As previously announced at
>>>>> https://esdiscuss.org/topic/an-update-on-object-observe,
>>>>> Object.observe has been withdrawn as an ECMAScript proposal. Also as
>>>>> mentioned there, usage in Chrome is extremely low according to
>>>>> chromestatus.com (0.0171% as I write this). Furthermore, most known
>>>>> usage of Object.observe utilizes https://github.com/polymer/observe-js,
>>>>> which includes fallback support for non-Object.observe engines (which will
>>>>> soon be all of them).
>>>>>
>>>>> I intend to flip the --harmony-object-observe flag to false in a
>>>>> change later today, with the aim of v8 version 4.9 branching without
>>>>> Object.observe support.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Adam
>>>>>
>>>>
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