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 |
Description
Domenic Denicola
2016-05-19 15:11:14 PDT
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 Does anyone have any opinion on this? 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. 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. 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. There is no consensus to remove this feature from WebKit at this moment. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 218677 *** |