[webkit-dev] Runtime setting for incomplete features

[Eric Seidel]

experimental would be one option.  We used to have build-webkit
--svg-experimental iirc.
-eric

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:

> Perhaps... any suggestions?-Darin
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> Maybe it's worth distinguishing these settings with some sort of
>> naming convention so that embedders know they'll be removed at some
>> point?
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Darin Fisher<darin at chromium.org> wrote:
>> > As is described in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28941, for
>> > the Chromium project, we like to make incomplete features available
>> > behind a command line flag to help facilitate testing.  I understand
>> > that the norm for WebKit is to only have compile time options for new
>> > / incomplete features.  In some cases, runtime settings are defined,
>> > but these generally correspond to end user preferences or the needs of
>> > specific embedders.
>> >
>> > At any rate, I just wanted to make sure that folks were aware that
>> > some settings may only exist to help facilitate Chromium's goal of
>> > shipping incomplete features, disabled by default.
>> >
>> > Alexey asked if there are any guidelines for when these settings may
>> > be removed.  I think the main thing is that the feature has to be
>> > reasonably complete and enabled by default by embedders (e.g.,
>> > Chromium) that are compiling the feature.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > -Darin
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