[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 75369] Change in location href format for frames with applewebdata: location

Fri Feb 17 14:20:56 PST 2012

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75369

--- Comment #10 from Daniel Jalkut <jalkut at red-sweater.com>  2012-02-17 14:20:56 PST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> I see two obvious courses of action:
> 1 - Do nothing, as it appears TinyMCE and MarsEdit have things under control in upcoming releases
> 2 - Change the behavior back with a LinkedOnOrAfter quirk.  That way, older versions of applications would get the old behavior, but any time an application was built and linked against a newer version of WebKit that has had the bug fixed it'd be expected that they adopt the new behavior.

I appreciate that it was a bug fix and if the new behavior is correct I'm happy to see it stay that way going forward.

I realize there is a non-zero engineering and maintenance cost to adding back the functionality with a  LinkedOnOrAfter test, but I would really appreciate it if you could do this because:

1. Many of my customers will not update my software promptly, and will contact me for support after seeing the failures in the app. Already with the beta I see there is a failure to connect the failure in my app with the update to Safari. "I did recently update to Safari 5.2 beta, but I don't see how that could possibly affect this."

2. Maintaining functionality of my previous releases makes it easier for me to do regression testing of my stuff as I'm debugging and enhancing the WebKit based rich editor in the app. If all my releases up to now stop working in WebKit going forward, it will just make that testing a bit harder.

3. Any other developers who are not tuned-in and may be hurt by this change would be spared their own version of this pain … without any effort on their part! You'll rest easier ;)

Thanks for considering it,
Daniel

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