Re: Can we remove nsIEntityConverter?

Cross-posting to mozilla.dev.tech.mathml so that this is seen by
people who are interested.

Please follow-up to mozilla.dev.platform.

Henri Sivonen writes:

> We ship data tables for converting from Unicode to HTML entities.
> These tables obviously take space. (They are not optimized for space
> usage, either.) As far as I can tell, these tables are not used at all
> in Fennec. In desktop Firefox, these data tables are used only for the
> MathML View Source feature.
>
> Additionally, a subset of the tables is used by some XPCOM-based
> extensions, but those extensions seem to be obsolete or abandoned or
> don't seem to be using the feature for a very good reason.
>
> These data tables are not exposed to the Web Platform.
>
> In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1048191 I proposed
> removing this for mobile only, but how about we just remove this
> altogether in order to make both Fennec and desktop Firefox smaller?