Browser-compat-data: Update String.prototype.repeat() compatibility

Created on 18 May 2020 · 2Comments · Source: mdn/browser-compat-data

on this page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/repeat

The compatibility claims that this function is not supported on Android, but it seems to work for me on embedded Android 7 WebView.

I would expect but cannot tell for sure without further investigation and testing whether or not the same would be the case in the Android browser app.

I would love to investigate this further and make a contribution at some point, unfortunately fighting some urgent deadlines right now.

I would also favor investigating and testing some of the other String.prototype functions.

data good first issue

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brodybits

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Looking at the data for repeat, it's rather old and probably wasn't checked when it was first introduced.

I tested the interactive example for repeat() in SauceLabs in the desktop Chrome and it's unsupported until Chrome 41. Given what we know about the relationship between these browser, I would expect the data to be the same for Chrome, Chrome for Android, and WebView: "version added": "41".

I'd welcome a PR updating this, from you or another contributor. I've marked this as "good first issue" since it's a pretty straight forward fix to String.json.

ddbeck on 18 May 2020

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Looking at the data for repeat, it's rather old and probably wasn't checked when it was first introduced.

I'd welcome a PR updating this, from you or another contributor. I've marked this as "good first issue" since it's a pretty straight forward fix to String.json.

ddbeck on 18 May 2020

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Fixed by @joneskj55 in https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/pull/7488 :tada: