Comment by Avamander
8 days ago
I think you don't know how much has already been removed and we're absolutely fine without those features.
8 days ago
I think you don't know how much has already been removed and we're absolutely fine without those features.
Tell me. I cannot, off the top of my head, think of a single feature that shipped across all major browsers that has been removed.
(For example: <blink> was never in WebKit or IE; Web SQL was never in Firefox or IE.)
Well, OK, I’ll count SharedArrayBuffer, which shipped across the board for a couple of months before being disabled for security reasons, and took up to four years before being shipped again, in slightly restricted form.
I wouldn’t count applets or plugins like Flash, because they weren’t really part of the web platform, and they also still work in theory, it’s just that the plugins in question no longer exist.
I recall FTP support being very widespread. I'm sure JavaScript support has gone through massive changes. There have been other HTML tags deprecated. There's plenty of (security) headers that have been deprecated.
I wouldn’t call FTP part of the web platform—it was never integrated. All you could do was link to it, and then the browser might be able to render it itself (Firefox and Chromium, until a few years ago), or open another app that could (IE and Safari, and Firefox and Chromium probably can still).
JavaScript has added things, not removed them.
There are other HTML elements and attributes that were never in any spec and were supported by only some browsers, which are no longer supported (either it was IE, or the feature was removed), and explicitly described as obsolete in the HTML Standard. But they were never supported by more than two of the three or four main engines, or if they were their functionality has been retained.
So, if you have anything that has actually been removed from the web platform, please be more specific.
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