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Bug 21983 - Remove BarProp and its uses
Summary: Remove BarProp and its uses
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P4 normal
Target Milestone: Needs Impl Interest
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-05-09 15:06 UTC by Erik Arvidsson
Modified: 2014-05-16 00:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Erik Arvidsson 2013-05-09 15:06:35 UTC 
The following properties were added by Netscape 4 and got partially implemented by WebKit. In WebKit the visible property is readonly and in Chrome these return true at all times.

window.locationbar
window.menubar
window.personalbar
window.scrollbars
window.statusbar
window.toolbar

These were never implemented by IE nor Opera which proves that they are not needed on the open web.
Comment 1 Erik Arvidsson 2013-05-09 20:59:12 UTC 
Actually, these do reflect the params passed to window.open.

I would still like us to remove these ;-)
Comment 2 Anne 2013-05-09 21:21:14 UTC 
I guess we should experiment with removing them from browsers first.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-05-28 22:15:04 UTC 
Yeah, if you want to remove them please be my guest. I'd be more than happy to drop them from the spec, but I am reluctant to remove them first. I prefer to have things in the spec that aren't strictly needed than have the spec missing things that are. :-)
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-10-21 20:47:57 UTC 
Anyone had any luck removing these? (arv? anne?)
Comment 5 Erik Arvidsson 2013-10-21 20:55:46 UTC 
I have nothing new to report. I'll add a usage counter for them so we will get some data eventually.
Comment 6 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-05-15 22:45:24 UTC 
arv, did you end up getting any data from the usage counters?
Comment 7 Erik Arvidsson 2014-05-16 00:01:26 UTC 
These are really high :'(

http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity

Doesn't seem like we can remove them any time soon.