Bug 157926
| Summary: | Remove applet support | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Domenic Denicola <d> |
| Component: | DOM | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | ap, cdumez, darin, emilio, eoconnor, gyuyoung.kim, jonlee, koivisto, pieter.breugelmans, rniwa, sam |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | Safari 9 | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
Domenic Denicola
Per discussions in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/454 we're trying to see if other browsers are willing to follow Chrome's lead and remove support for <applet>. So far it seems like Edge is in favor as well.
Concretely:
- Do *not* change the parsing rules for <applet>
- Remove HTMLAppletElement
- Make document.applets always return an empty HTMLCollection (even if there are <applet> elements in the document).
Would WebKit be interested in this change?
As a bonus, you'd get to close a *bunch* of open issues: https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=applet&list_id=1805197
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Domenic Denicola
After doing further spec survey, I added these additional changes:
- Remove applet from document.all
- Remove applet from the Document's named properties collection
- Remove applet from the Window's named properties collection
- Remove applet attributes align="", hspace="", vspace="", width="", and height="" presentional behavior
Chris Dumez
Does anyone have any opinion on this?
Sam Weinig
I'd want data on how much it is used in Safari before making a call. In the past, there have been some big users of Java in Safari on the Mac, so it's not an obvious call to me.
Ryosuke Niwa
I just checked the internal statistics, and Java is still used in a significant proportion of users so I don't think we're dropping this feature anytime soon given Safari is probably the only browser on Mac that supports Java at this point.
Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)
Just a status update here:
* Gecko removal: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279218 (shipped in FF56)
* Spec removal: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/1399
* Chromium removal: https://crbug.com/470301 (shipped a ton ago)
* Edge bug (not sure if they have removed or not): https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/11946645/
I'm happy to write a patch for this if WebKit's position on this removal changes.
Ryosuke Niwa
There is no consensus to remove this feature from WebKit at this moment.
Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders]
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 218677 ***