> Its been suggested before that we could leave the applicationCache global
in place, but just make it do nothing in insecure contexts.

I did see this idea of keeping the applicationCache global in one of the
bugs, I think if we have breakage we could try this as a follow up piece of
work along with other approaches like expiring the cache more often.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Mike Taylor <mi...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> > When the pref is set to false the API will be removed:
>> >
>> >   -
>> >
>> >   window.applicationCache will be removed
>> >   -
>> >
>> >   The cache service Firefox implements for AppCache will be disabled
>> over
>> >   Insecure Contexts
>> >
>> >
>> > When the pref is set to true the code will produce an additional
>> developer
>> > console warning about the removal timeline.
>> >
>> > In Nightly and Early beta for 60; the pref will be set to false removing
>> > the API.
>>
>> It will be interesting to see if we get reports of pages (that don’t
>> feature test) throwing with the missing applicationCache global. A few
>> years (and laptops) ago I had done some site corpus grepping — I’ll see if
>> I can find any of that data.
>>
>
> Its been suggested before that we could leave the applicationCache global
> in place, but just make it do nothing in insecure contexts.
>
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