What the *smoosh* happened to Array#flatten?! Why is everyone talking about MooTools? Why doesn’t TC39 just break the Web?
@mathias explains #SmooshGate:https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate …
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Replying to @ChromiumDev @mathias
I just want to point out that there are cases where someone wrote a website and years later it doesn't work due to browser updates. Here's a couple I came up with off the top of my head:https://github.com/styfle/breaking-changes-web …
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Replying to @styfle @ChromiumDev
Yeah, https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate#removing-apis … applies to changing existing features as well. Note though that Flash is not part of the Web Platform; it was never an open standard, nor was it natively implemented in browsers (except for Chrome, which packaged it).
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Replying to @mathias @ChromiumDev
True, flash was not an open standard. But the idea remains that websites that were working fine when they were released, eventually bit-rot and stop working. I'm trying to think of other scenarios but most revolve around HTTPS.
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That’s the point: sites relying on Flash were never working fine! They were only working with an additional plugin. They never worked on several popular smartphone models. There’s a big difference. And still, we only removed Flash when its usage numbers went down.
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