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by WhitneyLand
307 days ago
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“That is exactly how web standards work…” Says who? You keep mentioning this 0.1% threshold yet… 1. I can’t find any reference to that do you have examples / citations? 2. On the contrary here’s a paper that proposes a 3x higher heuristic: https://arianamirian.com/docs/icse2019_deprecation.pdf 3. It seems there are plenty of examples of features being removed above that threshold NPAPI/SPDY/WebSQL/etc. 4. Resources are finite. It’s not a simple matter of who would be impacted. It’s also opportunity cost and people who could be helped as resources are applied to other efforts. |
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As a general rule of thumb, 0.1% of PageVisits (1 in 1000) is large, while 0.001% is considered small but non-trivial. Anything below about 0.00001% (1 in 10 million) is generally considered trivial. There are around 771 billion web pages viewed in Chrome every month (not counting other Chromium-based browsers). So seriously breaking even 0.0001% still results in someone being frustrated every 3 seconds, and so not to be taken lightly!
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Read the full doc. They even give examples when they couldn't remove a feature impacting just 0.0000008% of web views.