The low usage counters indicate that this is something that could relatively safely be removed, though I wonder if you have taken a look at any of the sites listed with the usage counter?

/Daniel

On 2022-07-26 23:26, Ayu Ishii wrote:
*Contact emails
*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

*Specification
*https://storage.spec.whatwg.org/

*Summary
*We propose to remove the following prefixed quota API, window.webkitStorageInfo in M106.

 *

    window.webkitStorageInfo.queryUsageAndQuota()

 *

    window.webkitStorageInfo.requestQuota()

The deprecation thread predates the Intent process, but has been marked as deprecated since 2013 (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88396).

*Blink component
*Blink>Storage>Quota <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EStorage%3EQuota>

*Motivation
*Chrome proposed and implemented <https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Quota> the prefixed quota API in 2011, which was immediately succeeded by the Quota API <https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-quota-api-20120703/> which has since been deprecated as well. The legacy storage quota API was never implemented by any other browser, and has been showing a deprecation warning since 2013. Rather than investing more support on these legacy APIs, we propose to remove it entirely.

*Search tags
*legacy <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:legacy>, quota <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:quota>, storage <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:storage>

*TAG review
*N/A

*Risks
*We previously made an attempt to remove window.webkitStorageInfo in 2017 (I2D <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/YcCr-aKGb5k/m/LuyNun5iCAAJ>). Since then, the modern quota API navigator.storage.estimate() shows increased adoption while window.webkitStorageInfo usage has decreased.

The top level use counter (PrefixedStorageInfo <https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/57>) still reports 0.6% of page loads, but we think this can’t be trusted since enumeration of global properties is common and will tick the counter. The actual  usage of the methods on webkitStorageInfo: is significantly lower:

 *

    window.webkitStorageInfo.queryUsageAndQuota()
    <https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/1808>
    - 0.000632%

 *

    window.webkitStorageInfo.requestQuota()
    <https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/1809>
    - 0.000172%

As a replacement for window.webkitStorageInfo.queryUsageAndQuota(), we recommend using the now standardized navigator.storage.estimate() <https://storage.spec.whatwg.org/#ref-for-dom-storagemanager-estimate>. This has been added to Chrome since M61, and adopted by Firefox since M57.

window.webkitStorageinfo.requestQuota() will not have a recommended replacement. Although navigator.webkitXXXStorage.requestQuota() <https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-quota-api-20120703/#widl-StorageQuota-requestQuota-void-unsigned-long-long-newQuotaInBytes-StorageQuotaCallback-successCallback-StorageErrorCallback-errorCallback> will still exist, this has never been standardized or adopted by other browsers. Its current usage is at 0.01% <https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/1811> and will need to do some work before full removal, but we are motivated to remove them. Explicitly requesting quota is only used in conjunction with the deprecated and Chrome-only webkitRequestFileSystem() API, which we also hope to remove when feasible.

This removal is part of a larger effort to remove deprecated storage APIs from the codebase <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HNwvk4jxV4uFCIRXzhU6sW_PlnPY33iuGQ8I7n9v3OM/edit?usp=sharing>. For feedback on other API deprecations, please use this doc for commenting.


Interoperability and Compatibility

Gecko: Never implemented

WebKit: Never  implemented

Web developers: No signals


*Debuggability
*Shows a deprecation warning in the console when used (since 2013).

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>*?
*no

*Tracking bug
*https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=695586

*Estimated milestones
*Removal proposed for M106

*Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
*https://chromestatus.com/feature/5659629104136192

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