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update window.browser spec per #532 #546

Open patrickkettner opened 4 months ago

patrickkettner commented 4 months ago

Fixes #532

patrickkettner commented 4 months ago

@oliverdunk thanks for the review! I believe I addressed everything in the last update, so another look at some point would be appreciated!

@Rob--W I'd love any feedback you have

patrickkettner commented 3 months ago

The thought occurred to be that there may be little point in distinguishing the browser and chrome namespaces

@Rob--W My thought process was that a developer may be surprised to see that modifying browser.foo has different effect to chrome.foo in different browsers. Since testing showed that to be true, it makes sense to attempt to standardize behavior to remove that surprise. Since we all have unique behavior (if you count our plan as a behavior), there would be some kind of change somewhere for that behavior to be consistent. If no one plans on changing their behavior, then I agree that there is no point in specing out the behavior, since it is just saying "anyone can do whatever they want". But if we want to align on expectations, then it makes sense to me to write down what those expectations are.