Hi folks! Thanks for working on this, Joey. Removing quirks where possible is always nice!
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 7:18 PM Joey Arhar <jar...@chromium.org> wrote: > Sounds good, I'm adding a UseCounter here: > https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4193560 > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 8:05 AM Rick Byers <rby...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> Hey Joey, >> Thanks for working to remove a quirk! Although we haven't written it into >> our compat principles <http://bit.ly/blink-compat>, I'm personally >> willing to accept greater compat risk for removing quirks as they're >> by-definition legacy behavior of the web which create an ongoing complexity >> burden for the platform which we should seek to eventually eliminate. >> >> Reading through the history >> <https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2988#issuecomment-1271763702> of >> WebKit not being able to make this change due to severe breakage in >> bugzilla and seeing that we still load 12% of pages in quirks mode >> <https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/2034>, >> > In https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2020/markup#conclusion the number was 3.97% of *pages* in httparchive are in quirks mode, and if I remember correctly, this has further declined slightly in 2021 and 2022. I'm not sure why there's a 3x discrepancy between the use counter page view number and the httparchive pages number, though. Does an about:blank iframe trigger the use counter? cheers, -- Simon Pieters https://www.mozilla.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAC7mYC5b5G_Qpp60knzHYtbLmHd1WJ-mWXgcg3eyOabTxhTksw%40mail.gmail.com.
