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Service Worker: remove URL.createObjectURL and URL.revokeObjectURL

Category

Service Worker

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Deprecated (Chrome 51)

Intent stage

None

• Breaking change: No
• Enterprise impact: None
• Spec maturity: Incubation

Summary

Per FileAPI: https://w3c.github.io/FileAPI/#creating-revoking change: https://github.com/w3c/FileAPI/commit/b9c2275df53cf3a808f1f272f3d6134d1b920549 URL.createObjectURL and URL.revokeObjectURL should not be exposed in Service Workers.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/FileAPI/
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/604951

Ecosystem

• Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=service-worker-remove-url-createobjecturl-and-url-revokeobjecturl
• Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Service%20Worker%3A%20remove%20URL.createObjectURL%20and%20URL.revokeObjectURL
• MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Service%20Worker%3A%20remove%20URL.createObjectURL%20and%20URL.revokeObjectURL
• Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Service%20Worker%3A%20remove%20URL.createObjectURL%20and%20URL.revokeObjectURL

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