The Navigator.taintEnabled() method always returns false.
Tainting was a security method used by JavaScript 1.2. It has long been removed; this method only stays for maintaining compatibility with very old scripts.
taintEnabled()
None.
Always returns false.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-navigator-taintenabled> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
taintEnabled |
No | No | 1 | ≤12.1–15 | No | No | 4 | ≤12.1–14 | No | No | No | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/taintEnabled