[webkit-dev] Runtime setting for incomplete features

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Oct 5, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Sam Weinig wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Drew Wilson <atwilson at google.com>  
> wrote:
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> I'm surprised to see these objections coming up now, weeks after the  
> original discussion, and only after my patch has landed in the tree.
>
> Sorry, I seemed to have missed that thread. I did however file a bug  
> as soon as the first runtime switch went in.
>
> That said, I agree that in an ideal world, we'd hide window.audio,  
> shared workers, notifications, local storage, databases, session  
> storage and any other runtime/platform-disabled API from  
> enumerations - I just agree with Maciej that this isn't a hugely  
> important issue, since these features are only runtime-disabled  
> while under development and so not widely available anyway.
>
> I obviously disagree with Maciej on this. I think it is bad to break  
> developers expectations for feature detection.

My comments were specifically based on the Chrome team's plans to only  
have the runtime switch in "dev channel" builds, and always fully  
compile features out in release product. Seems to me like perfecting  
the behavior of feature detection in dev channel builds (their rough  
equivalent of WebKit nightlies) may not be worth the extra code  
complexity. If there is a relatively simple way to do it more  
correctly then we can go ahead and do that. I did point out the "in"  
testing flaw with the current state of affairs.

Regards,
Maciej

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