Bug 266852 – Remove -webkit-column-progression and -webkit-column-axis properties

• Status: NEW
• Component: Layout and Rendering

[Ahmad Saleem]

Hi Team,

While looking through Blink's commit, I came across another potential clean-up:

Blink Commit - https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/b8e807bcea9f03c4a4cd7aa4a7fb7e2b7ac7acc2

Just wanted to raise to get input, whether we still have any internal usage or it is safe to remove.

NOTE - I just checked that we have tests but didn't check, if we still have implementation.

Thanks!

[Karl Dubost]

asking around

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/120106659>

[Karl Dubost]

Ahmad, I think these can be safely removed.
I searched and didn't find any instances apart in the codebase of WebKit.

[Karl Dubost]

https://searchfox.org/wubkat/search?q=WebkitColumnProgression&path=&case=false&regexp=false
https://searchfox.org/wubkat/search?q=webkit-column-progression&path=&case=false&regexp=false
https://searchfox.org/wubkat/search?q=WebkitColumnAxis&path=&case=false&regexp=false
https://searchfox.org/wubkat/search?q=webkit-column-axis&path=&case=false&regexp=false

And this is not part of any standards
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-multicol/

The commit blink has also happened 10 years ago.

[Karl Dubost]

https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_-webkit-column-progression
https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_-webkit-column-axis

no support anywhere.

[Ahmad Saleem]

Draft PR - https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/23643 (to check what else fails on EWS)

[Karl Dubost]

Ahmad, doing a last check internally about dependency on the content.