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navigator.storage no longer an EventTarget

Category
Offline / Storage
Type
No developer-visible change
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 132)
Intent stage
None

Summary

navigator.storage is no longer an EventTarget navigator.storage was made an EventTarget for the Storage Pressure Event, which never made it past the prototype phase: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5666274359115776 This dead code is being removed and as a result, navigator.storage will no longer extend EventTarget.

Motivation

This web-visible change is a result of technical shortcomings that make it impossible to feature-gate changes to an API object's signature. In a world without that shortcoming, navigator.storage would have never been an EventTarget.

Standards & signals

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