[webkit-dev] Removing obsolete File attributes

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Darin Fisher wrote:

> As I mentioned in the bug, it is encouraging news that Mozilla has already removed these attributes (for a couple releases now).  I would like to see them go away too.
> 
> There's unfortunately, the real possibility that there may be some existing webkit-specific or chrome-specific (extensions) content out there that is expecting these properties to exist.  I think we need to be a bit cautious since we've included these properties in webkit for such a long time (since 2008!).  Here's the revision that added them: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/34702

Is there a good way to quantify and/or mitigate this risk?

Regards,
Maciej

> 
> -Darin
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> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> wrote:
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> I'd like to remove old File object properties that are superseded in current spec versions, and have been already removed from Firefox: <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79383>.
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> Would any ports want to keep these under a feature flag, or to have some time to investigate possible consequences of the removal for port specific content?
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> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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