[webkit-dev] Runtime setting for incomplete features

[Darin Fisher]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> Sorry, I seemed to have missed that thread. I did however file a bug as
> soon as the first runtime switch went in.
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>> 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.
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> I obviously disagree with Maciej on this. I think it is bad to break
> developers expectations for feature detection.
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> 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.
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That's not how we do things.  Sorry for the confusion.  What ships in dev
channel goes to beta provided it passes the quality metrics.  What ships in
beta goes to stable again provided it passes the quality metrics.  We do not
change the build configuration when promoting a build.

Therefore, it is essential that feature detection is done correctly even in
dev channel builds.  My apologies if you have received mixed messages on
this.

-Darin
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