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Re: Adding test-only APIs
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Robert O'Callahan
Dec 16, 2009, 3:42:37 PM12/16/09
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On 17/12/09 4:39 AM, Mike Shaver wrote:
> We can require that a pref be set to enable/expose the APIs in
> question, which the test infrastructure can easily set. If you're
> worried about extension developers forcibly switching the pref, I
> think the only solution is to give them another, better (by their
> lights and ours) way to accomplish the same thing.
> We can require that a pref be set to enable/expose the APIs in
> question, which the test infrastructure can easily set. If you're
> worried about extension developers forcibly switching the pref, I
> think the only solution is to give them another, better (by their
> lights and ours) way to accomplish the same thing.
Yeah
> "You shouldn't want
> that" is rarely a productive path to take with weakly-connected
> platform consumers, for better or worse.
But it's still sometimes the right answer, e.g. in the case of "I want
to access the DOM from non-main threads".
Rob
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