On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Till Schneidereit <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Unfortunately, it turns out that Array.prototype.contains breaks the web.
> Or, the MooTools-using parts of the web, at least. So I'm preparing a
> backout right now.
>
> What's more pressingly unfortunate is that Array.prototype.contains enjoys
> a surprisingly spectacular popularity: it's already used in quite a number
> of places in the tree, which I'll have to back out, too.
>
>
> Apropos of nothing whatsoever: it turns out landing new JS builtins as
> Nightly-only without making that Very Clear is a Bad Idea. In the future,
> SpiderMonkey devs will announce such changes and their restrictions on
> dev-platform.
>

That's a great point.  It would be great if we can adopt
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ExposureGuidelines for new JS fatures as
well.

Also, out of curiosity, do we have ways of hiding JS built-ins behind prefs
similar to DOM APIs?

-- 
Ehsan
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