Exciting bit from @rbyers at BlinkOn7 is new focus on "API Confluence" - if no one's followed us in implementing an API for ~2 years...
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...we'll look into whether it should be removed, or we should try harder to get other browsers with us. (We were lazy about this previously)
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We've killed ~30 non-standard APIs in last 6 months, including ones we thought were unkillable, due to closer analysis of actual usage.
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(In particular, we were sure FileSystem API was unkillable, but it turns out most usage was malicious - getting around cookie deletion, etc)
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Another big thing - we're *so close* to making adding tests to web-platform-tests (shared w/ other browsers) as easy as our own tests.
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Just some tiny roadblocks left - sounds like we're transitioning to, as much as possible, relying on w-p-t for our platform-level testing.
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Ooh, we're also stating that stars on bugs are a strong input to priority. Gonna try this year to close 90%+ of the top 1% of starred bugs.
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That can have problems. However, I hope this bug is in that 90%: bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium…
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IMO, better (social-media aware) metric is not "number of stars" but "number of days on which stars were added".
Jan 31, 2017 · 8:31 PM UTC
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