1477345 - FileException API article should be deleted

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: API: File API, defect, P3)

Description

[Connor Shea]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

- Visit FileException article: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileException


Actual results:

The article exists and seems to document a no-longer-existant, never-implemented API.

- Note that the standard linked in the specifications section doesn't mention anything about a FileException API
- Note that Google doesn't bring up anything about a FileException web API other than this MDN article.


Expected results:

The FileException article should be deleted.

Comment 1

[Connor Shea]

Interestingly, the w3c GitHub org does actually have 2 mentions of FileException https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aw3c+FileException&type=Code

Also, the MDN article includes a compat table that suggests the exception was implemented in Chrome, albeit with a webkit prefix. I'm not sure if that should be trusted, but it may be worth looking into before deleting this article.

Comment 2

[Connor Shea]

An old version of the File System API spec mentions FileException, so it's not entirely impossible that Chrome implemented it at that point: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-file-system-api-20110419/

That said, I don't know how to determine whether Chrome supported it.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.