Navigator.platform deprecated?

[Chris Brown]

Hi,

I see a deprecated banner on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorID/platform. I can't see any mention of this property being deprecated other than on MDN, and no mention of deprecation in the following:

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/webappapis.html#the-navigator-object
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#dom-navigator-platform

Does anyone have a source for this info?

I'm asking because if this property turns out not to be deprecated after all, I will use it :)


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[Eric Shepherd]

I don't know why this got marked deprecated. I went through the history
of the WHATWG HTML spec and did some spot checking and never found a
time anywhere around this change (on September 2, by teoli) that made
this deprecated.

I have removed that banner (and the "Deprecated" tag), since as far as I
can tell it never should have been added. If someone has information to
the contrary, please share!

While I was at it, I tidied up some other style and other quirks with
the page, so it's in a better state overall.

Thank you for spotting this error!

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*From:* Chris Brown
*Sent:* Friday, Apr 29, 2016 8:19:49 AM EDT
*To:* dev...@lists.mozilla.org
*Subject:* [dev-mdc] Navigator.platform deprecated?

> I see a deprecated banner on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorID/platform. I can't see any mention of this property being deprecated other than on MDN, and no mention of deprecation in the following:
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/webappapis.html#the-navigator-object
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#dom-navigator-platform
>
> Does anyone have a source for this info?
>
> I'm asking because if this property turns out not to be deprecated after all, I will use it :)

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[Karl Dubost]

Eric, Chris,

Le 30 avr. 2016 à 00:43, Eric Shepherd <eshe...@mozilla.com> a écrit :
> I don't know why this got marked deprecated. I went through the history
> of the WHATWG HTML spec and did some spot checking and never found a
> time anywhere around this change (on September 2, by teoli) that made
> this deprecated.

And it is used in multiple places for platform detection (unfortunately, but reality).
So yes it's well implemented and interoperable.

Examples at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143441
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=826353
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036608


Thanks for the finding, and the modifications.

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[Eric Shepherd]

I *suspect* it got marked as deprecated because some well-meaning soul
who knows this thing ought not to be used suggested we mark it that way
to discourage its use. But that's not technically correct, so...

> And it is used in multiple places for platform detection (unfortunately, but reality).
> So yes it's well implemented and interoperable.

[Chris Brown]

Thanks for the fix guys.

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