Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Allow disabling of default scroll restoration behavior from Anne van Kesteren on 2015-03-26 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2015)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:11:52 +0100
To: Majid Valipour <majidvp@google.com>
Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Majid Valipour <majidvp@chromium.org>, Rick Byers <rbyers@chromium.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, japhet@chromium.org
Message-ID: <CADnb78jLZs99=X-YjGp7rPi602CgOViAi58At=_QP1gMrq=QVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Majid Valipour <majidvp@google.com> wrote:
> That is fair. Assuming clear documentation helps alleviate potential
> confusion I am fine with deprecation route. I suppose the purpose of the
> spec is to not only document the current recommended behavior but also
> capture any legacy ones until it is fully removed.

Yeah, we don't want any new user agents such as Spartan or Servo run
into pages that only work with history.replaceState(). They'd then
have to reverse engineer it rather than simply reading a specification
which is not nice.

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