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update window.browser spec per #532 #546

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32 changes: 32 additions & 0 deletions specification/window.browser.bs
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Expand Up @@ -52,6 +52,38 @@ spec: html; urlPrefix: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
it MUST be used only for WebExtension related functionality.
</section>

<section>
For backwards compatibility with older versions of WebExtensions that used
<code>chrome</code> as a global identifier for WebExtension related methods,
a UA MAY define a global <code>chrome</code> object that includes all
properties of {{browser}}.
{{browser}} and <code>chrome</code> MAY be direct aliases of each other.
When {{browser}} and <code>chrome</code> are distinct objects, each initial
property of {{browser}} SHOULD be defined on the <code>chrome</code> object,
and each property descriptor on the <code>chrome</code> object SHOULD return
the same value as the corresponding property on the {{browser}} object.

<div class="example" id="example-1">
Here's an example of the expected alias behavior
<pre><code class="lang-js">
// As `chrome` and `browser` are not direct aliases,
// modifying one top level values will not change the other
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globalThis.browser.FAKE = true
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console.log(globalThis.chrome.FAKE); //undefined

// Individual properties are aliased, so updating a known property
// directly changes the matching property on the other
globalThis.browser.runtime.FAKE = 123

console.log(globalThis.chrome.runtime.FAKE);
// 123
</code></pre>

</div>


</section>

<pre class="idl">
partial interface Window {
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