Re: hasFeature()

Stephen Chenney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.general,gmane.comp.web.svg
Message-ID <CAObCcUrTMbGeUqGtCVZ53X5kvPh_3i9xDy3U+8YF_+=J=r5z9A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-domimplementation-hasfeature has a
> > weird lifeline basically for SVG and an open issue related to that
> > since it's not exactly clear what the details should be. Is SVG moving
> > away from the fantastical feature testing world as well? Should we
> > just simply always return true?
>
> If it would help, I could attempt to add use counters to Blink, get
> help determine how often hasFeature() is used, and how often it
> returns false.


Adding a UseCounter for hasFeature in Blink is non-trivial, but I am
getting a patch together for it.

In doing so, I noticed that SVGTests relies on the same code, so we will
also catch uses of the SVGTests requiredFeatures, requiredExtensions and
systemLanguage attributes.

Stephen.
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