Removed feature compat table entry confusing
See original GitHub issueWith Firefox for Android a bunch of extension APIs are not yet supported that were previously supported. As such they have a removed version but no newer added version yet. The table ends up looking like this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/downloads/onChanged#Browser_compatibility If I look at that entry, I’d think it’s trying to tell me that the feature isn’t supported between version 48 and 79 for sure, no idea about 80, maybe it’ll be supported there. But that’s not at all what the compat data says:
"firefox_android": {
"version_added": "48",
"version_removed": "79"
},
https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/master/webextensions/api/downloads.json#L1134-L1136
A better rendering - in my opinion - would show it as not supported starting with version 79 (either just 79 or maybe some indicator like 79 - *) and have a “previous support” entry for 48-79.
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I would rather close this instead of having issues linger around that we are bound to forge to go back to and close. Seeing that this will be resolved as part of the redesign, I am going to close as that work is tracked elsewhere.
I think Daryl’s work is going to address this. I don’t think there’s any immediate work to be done, though it’s not actually resolved yet.