In the context of the time it was created it was fine to mess with and having an enlightened view from the future can't negate that even though I understand the complaint.
8 months ago, Chrome rewrote how URLs work [0]. Which, unsurprisingly, affects the `URL` constructor in JS.
We have had so many APIs vanish from any context to "secure contexts" only. Like AppCache, or workers, or the clipboard.
Entire APIs like XMLHttpRequestProgressEvent have vanished entirely.
In fact, there is a lot of obsolete features. Enough that there's a list. [1] You can't use global or source with a RegExp anymore. You can't use the arity property on a function anymore. `Object.prototype.eval` is dead. `Object.getNotifier` is dead. `Date.prototype.toLocaleFormat()` is dead.
Old websites have been broken. Repeatedly. Or we wouldn't have, say, blogspam on why mixed content suddenly broke some Wordpress systems.
Yes, these are good changes. They're more secure. However, we're willing to break some sites in the name of security, but unwilling to fix ambiguous parsing for the programmer?
