On May 28, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> On May 28, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Peter Michaux wrote:
> 
>> A lot of the above looks like HTML. Isn't versioning that depends on
>> HTML out of scope for the ECMAScript standard?
> 
> Yes, so? Call the jusdiction police :-P.

Er, "jurisdiction".

The versioning issue on the web requires thinking about HTML as well as JS. We 
discussed generating script tags via document.write conditioned by object 
detection and the like (autoconf-style trial eval tests of new features). None 
of this is purely ECMA-262, it all involves something above JS in the browser, 
at least the DOM or even HTML.

/be


> We were talking about a "systems" problem, which requires looking across 
> layers and considering the big picture.
> 
> At the meeting, Mark Miller suggested we take the idea of <script-if> to the 
> public-script-coord mailing list. I'll do that next week.
> 
> /be
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