I have received feedback from a website about a bug one of their developers reported. They ended fixing the bug and notified me about it afterwards. Unfortunately, the bug was their developer had enabled the "experimental web platform features" flag and did not realise it. As a result, they ended up spending time and UA snif a feature that was not properly launched.
I would assume this could be a common occurrence when Chrome starts implementing a feature after it has launched on other browsers or it starts to be implemented on another platform. As a result, feature check would be positive and potentially break the website in more or less large ways. We expect developers/users to know they have the experimental web platform flag on but it is easy to forget and end up "fixing" a Chrome bug.
Would it be reasonable to add a console info/warning when the console is opened and the experimental web platform flag is on, notifying the user that they should consider disabling the flag if something is not working as expected?
Comment 1 by dglazkov@chromium.org
, Apr 17 2017