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by crazysim 3512 days ago
Wasn't Battery Status API discovered to be harmful to privacy and on the way out in all browsers?
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grzm 3512 days ago
Sounds like Apple and Mozilla are planning to:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/07/apple_mozilla_kill_a...

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gsnedders 3512 days ago
It was never enabled in any of the Apple-owned ports of WebKit, IIRC it was enabled in the GTK and Qt ports, but I could be wrong there. So Apple killing it isn't really true—they're just deleting code that was already gone at compile-time for them.
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