Content bug: No note that WEBGL_debug_renderer_info is deprecated on Firefox

[danielhjacobs]

What page(s) did you find the problem on?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WEBGL_debug_renderer_info

Specific page section or heading?

Immediately below the page header or the browser compatibility table

What is the problem?

There is no notice that this is deprecated in Firefox, despite the fact when using it in Firefox, you get the message "WEBGL_debug_renderer_info is deprecated in Firefox and will be removed".

What did you expect to see?

Either a deprecated notecard, or if there is not one because this is only deprecated in Firefox, a note in the browser compatibility section for Firefox explaining that this is deprecated in Firefox.

Did you test this? If so, how?

Viewing the console of Firefox when using an extension which prints information from WEBGL_debug_renderer_info

[hamishwillee]

Thanks for reporting. FYI the deprecation note is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/canvas/WebGLContextExtensions.cpp#207 , introduced in FF92 here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1722782.

I'm trying to find out the reason/scope for the change in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1722782#c9 . Once I know, I'll update the browser compatibility data.

[danielhjacobs]

I see 2 prior issues that relate to that last issue:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1715690: Original issue related to RENDERER, saying it exposes more info than necessary

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1722113: Issue that disabled WEBGL_debug_renderer_info in nightly, which caused an issue

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1722782: Issue that led to the current message, re-enabling WEBGL_debug_renderer_info but describing it as deprecated and stating it will be removed.

[hamishwillee]

@danielhjacobs FYI So there was a response which indicates that they don't really know if it will be removed "yet". I've added a note to BCD here mdn/browser-compat-data#14964 which should close this.