As the removal has rode the trains through Beta without issue I'm going to remove AppCache over insecure contexts for stable as originally stated for 62.
The work is happening here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460478 Mike west did a wonderful job of adding web-platform-tests thank you! https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/commit/bf17459a71ff4d1ea280bae54dd046ecf86e0628 On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Kingston <[email protected]> wrote: > This has now landed into central and appears to be sticking: > https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2018/support-for- > application-cache-on-insecure-sites-has-been-deprecated/ > > I have filed a follow up bug to remove "OfflineResourceList" interface we > use: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435261 > > Also Anne filed a bug on the standard as it appears other browsers are > interested now in doing the same: https://github.com/whatwg/ > html/issues/3440 > > This also means we can move the tests into Web Platform Tests to ensure > all browsers implement the same. > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Kingston <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Its been suggested before that we could leave the applicationCache >> global in place, but just make it do nothing in insecure contexts. >> >> I did see this idea of keeping the applicationCache global in one of the >> bugs, I think if we have breakage we could try this as a follow up piece of >> work along with other approaches like expiring the cache more often. >> >> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Ben Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Mike Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> > When the pref is set to false the API will be removed: >>>> > >>>> > - >>>> > >>>> > window.applicationCache will be removed >>>> > - >>>> > >>>> > The cache service Firefox implements for AppCache will be disabled >>>> over >>>> > Insecure Contexts >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > When the pref is set to true the code will produce an additional >>>> developer >>>> > console warning about the removal timeline. >>>> > >>>> > In Nightly and Early beta for 60; the pref will be set to false >>>> removing >>>> > the API. >>>> >>>> It will be interesting to see if we get reports of pages (that don’t >>>> feature test) throwing with the missing applicationCache global. A few >>>> years (and laptops) ago I had done some site corpus grepping — I’ll see if >>>> I can find any of that data. >>>> >>> >>> Its been suggested before that we could leave the applicationCache >>> global in place, but just make it do nothing in insecure contexts. >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
