On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Jon Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2. Remove HTML notifications. >>> >>> It has been removed from the spec, and we don't intend on ever supporting >>> HTML notifications. I brought this issue up before; is there an update on >>> this front from any other platforms? >> >> HTML notifications are a pretty popular feature in Chrome's extension >> system. As of a few months ago: >> >> * 614 extensions in our web store use createHTMLNotification >> * 72 have more than 10k users >> * 14 have more than 100k users >> * 3 have more than 500k users >> * 6.7M total actextension installs >> >> We can move developers off of this API, but not overnight. Is it >> possible to come up with a slower deprecation plan than "immediately"? > > Since HTML notifications are already under a separate feature flag, it's > probably practical to keep them around for a while, and just not include them > in the proposed updated API. Do you have a suggestion for what might be a > reasonable deprecation timeline?
Unrelated to timeline, it might be worthwhile to make createHTMLNotification a runtime-enabled feature so that we can avoid offering it to the web at large and possibly restrict it to only a whitelisted set of extensions. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
