Apple-style-span class was fully removed from Blink

Posted on Feb 17, 2017

Finally, the Apple-style-span class has been fully removed from Blink (commit).

Apple-style-span has not been produced since 2011 (see https://webkit.org/blog/1737/apple-style-span-is-gone), but there was still some legacy code to handle the Apple-style-span class, because old WebKit engines had produced it. Now its usage is quite low (<= 0.0001%), so we decided to remove it from Blink at BlinkOn7. The code ran whenever users copied text or ran editing APIs (document.execCommand) to keep the styles when pasting. Other non-standard CSS classes (Apple-interchange-newline, Apple-converted-space, Apple-paste-as-quotation) will also be removed soon if possible.

Anyway, I feel that editing in Chromium is a bit faster. :P