On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote:
>> I've posted a patch to delete webkitPostMessage in favor of the
>> identically behaving, unprefixed postMessage:
>>
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96577
>>
>> We've discussed this topic previously in
>> <http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-April/020237.html>.
>> In that thread, I was asked to follow the instructions in
>> <https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/DeprecatingFeatures>, but those
>> instructions are too hard.
>
> Really? I thought it was pretty easy for Chrome to gather "usage statistics 
> in the wild (either by instrumenting the browser or any other means)" using 
> what people call the "histogram" mechanism. Is it now a lot harder?

My evidence for it being too hard is that no one has actually been
able to use that process to delete any prefixes.

Adam
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