On 10/15/26 3:58 p.m., Joey Arhar wrote:
> 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.
I'm not 100% sure... errors are great for developers when testing and
debugging. But it's possible (and likely, if we're being honest) that
devs aren't testing on multiple versions of Android to know that it
might break for users that haven't upgraded.
Updating documentation is helpful - thanks for filing an issue.
What is the feature detection story?
https://wicg.github.io/eyedropper-api/#platform-support suggests that
it's not exposed where it isn't supported. Can we do that?
> 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?
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