Sorry I forgot to link to the bug itself: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903372 which hasn't changed from last time.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:18 PM Jonathan Kingston <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since the deprecation of this feature the usage of this feature has > reached near 0 numbers in our usage counters[1]. 0.003% based on 64 beta [2] > > The specification has removed xml:base many years ago and this change has > an advantage of code simplification and also reduces the need to compute > base paths in the DOM. > > IE, Safari and Chrome don’t support this feature so we should remove this > feature from the web platform given it’s declining usage. > > Mozilla attempted to remove this before[3] previously however the feed > reader appears to have been a blocker for it’s removal due to xml:base > usage within RSS feeds. However this has since been removed and no longer a > blocker. > > Kind regards > > Jonathan > > [1] > https://telemetry.mozilla.org/new-pipeline/dist.html#!cumulative=0&end_date=2018-11-26&include_spill=0&keys=__none__!__none__!__none__&max_channel_version=nightly%252F65&measure=USE_COUNTER2_DEPRECATED_XMLBaseAttribute_DOCUMENT&min_channel_version=nightly%252F62&processType=*&product=Firefox&sanitize=1&sort_keys=submissions&start_date=2018-10-22&table=0&trim=1&use_submission_date=0 > > [2] > http://georgf.github.io/usecounters/#kind=page&group=DEPRECATED&channel=beta&version=64 > > [3] > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/1JDnJWefe1E/discussion > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
