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That existed: see DOMImplementation.hasFeature.

Turned out, there were cases where browsers returned "true" while their implementation of the feature did not do what the authors wanted. There were various reasons for this: the feature detection being decoupled from the feature implementation, bugs in the feature that could not be captured by the implementation, the detection not being fine-grained enough, etc. And there were cases where hasFeature returned "false" while the feature was usable, for similar reasons.

Long story short, at this point the implementation of hasFeature per spec, and in browsers, is "return true".




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