> That's a little surprising. Do you think it would be better if it didn't throw an error? That seems more obvious to the author what is happening compared to returning a fake value or something.
> Do you have any published developer guidance (feature detection? try/catch?) to avoid foot guns? It looks like the MDN article already has a catch in its example code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EyeDropper#examples It doesn't explain that this catch will be hit in this scenario with older versions of android though, so I filed an issue here: https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/46163 On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 9:17 AM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a little surprising. Do you have any published developer guidance > (feature detection? try/catch?) to avoid foot guns? > On 10/14/26 7:38 p.m., Joey Arhar wrote: > > In previous versions of android, the API will throw an error. > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What will previous versions of Android experience? An unexposed API? >> >> >> ☆*PhistucK* >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 6:52 PM Joey Arhar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am enabling this on Android in M158 because the latest version of >>> Android now has a native eyedropper API that we can hook into. >>> I will follow up on feedback and alternative proposals for this API. >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 5:13 AM Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 7:04 PM 'Ionel Popescu' via blink-dev >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > https://wicg.github.io/eyedropper-api/ >>>> >>>> It seems some security issues were opened against this document post >>>> LGTMs. And after these issues were raised there hasn't been a lot of >>>> activity on the repository which makes me wonder what is going on. >>>> Does anyone know? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CADnb78jYKAh8%3Dpe859_PubwcBOoWW%2BHdQDJ8jcJmbOYeotodRg%40mail.gmail.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 [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAK6btwKBNe13UR6d8y9Ygc%2BmP8-dTsn-hK2LrgmSQJ89HPUGOA%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAK6btwKBNe13UR6d8y9Ygc%2BmP8-dTsn-hK2LrgmSQJ89HPUGOA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAK6btwKZCPE0mp3HUPsFLgxRkkwgYY8TiRpeyZLPNVbVGuGgaw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAK6btwKZCPE0mp3HUPsFLgxRkkwgYY8TiRpeyZLPNVbVGuGgaw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAK6btwLdBYjFJ6CL_2QSR5EB3M5muHn76XNo-%2BbAtMVN9EFQjQ%40mail.gmail.com.
