[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 58282] Core Animation plugin layers are incorrectly released

Mon Apr 11 16:12:56 PDT 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58282

--- Comment #4 from Stuart Morgan <stuartmorgan at chromium.org>  2011-04-11 16:12:56 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Or maybe we just change the spec.

Can you guarantee that nobody implemented a plugin that does UA checks, and does the right thing in browsers other than Safari? I'm not excited about the idea of releasing a version of Chrome where plugins that were built to spec suddenly start crashing, and I'm guessing the same would be true of Firefox.

You and Kevin were both involved in the discussion on plugin-futures about making that change to the spec; Kevin explicitly agreed that we should make the change, and you didn't object when Josh gave the new language that was going in. You even made the change to the sample code on the wiki IIRC. It's not like this is something that slipped through unnoticed by accident.

If you had argued then that your having an implementation already shipped meant the change shouldn't be made, that would be one thing (although it would be nice if pre-spec implementations used some made-up constant to prevent that kind of thing), but now that there are several other shipped implementations that *do* match the spec it's a bit late for that.

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