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Link to “Intent to Deprecate” thread
There was none. This was deprecated by Chris Dumez (no longer working in Blink) in https://crbug.com/367866 which reached stable with M36 in July.
Summary
Remove NodeIterator.expandEntityReferences and TreeWalker.expandEntityReferences.
Motivation
They always return false and have been removed from the DOM Standard:
https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-traversal
Usage information from UseCounter
https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/354
https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/355
Entry on chromestatus.com
None.
Compatibility Risk
Virtually zero, given the false->undefined change and ~0% usage.To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+...@chromium.org.