Comment by troupo

Well, it's Google who jumped at the opportunity citing their own counters and stats.

Just like they did the last time when they tried to remove confirm/prompt[1] and were surprised to see that their numbers don't paint the full picture, as literally explicitly explained in their own docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RC-pBBvsazYfCNNUSkPqAVpS...

You'd think that the devs of the world's most popular browser would have a little more care than just citing some numbers, ignoring all feedback, and moving forward with whatever they want to do?

Oh. Speaking, of "not just Google".

The question was raised in this meeting: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11146#issuecomment-275... Guess what.

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dan: even if the data were accurate, not enough zeros for the usage to be low enough.

brian: I'm guessing people will have objections... people do use it and some like it

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[1] See, e.g. https://gomakethings.com/google-vs.-the-web/