On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Till Schneidereit < > t...@tillschneidereit.net> wrote: > >> That'll mean that Windows XP/Vista users won't have them. >> >> Might be ok, but means the bar for a decision like this should be >> somewhat higher than usual, I think. >> > > Understood, but that does not change the difficulty of trying to maintain > ESR for 9+ months when trunk code looks completely different. I think its > too risky from a security maintenance perspective. > Dirkjan rightly points out that this'll likely be true for other things. Backporting patches will be especially hard for 52 and perhaps the next ESR because of all the Quantum work going on. However, that actually seems to be an argument _for_ disabling Service Workers: as you say it's a huge feature that's not yet really relied on by sites, at least not as a hard requirement. So disabling it shouldn't have too much of a noticeable negative effect, but will seriously lighten the burden of keeping the ESR secure. > > Also, service workers are typically a progressive enhancement for most > sites. Users still have access to content on the web. They just lose > offline support and push notification alerts. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
