On 11:59 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
We've been extending JS in SpiderMonkey forever. Had we not, it's hard
to say what would have happened. One anecote: getters and setters were
something I added over a decade ago, such that when Firefox took
enough share from IE that by 2005, the live.com properties (live maps,
I believe) used getters and setters on Firefox to emulate IE's
non-standard DOM. This caused very rapid reverse-engineering of
getters and setters in Safari and Opera. I'm not relating this to tell
a story with a clean "moral". Some of this was accidental, but much of
it was game theory. Had we hidden getters and setters behind a flag,
I'm not sure what Microsoft's web developers would have done. Probably
use an Ajax library that did not require IE DOM quirk emulation
I think you are probably right. They could have done a good thing, but
getters and setters gave them a license to continue doing the bad thing.
So ultimately they took a lot longer to finally adopt jQuery.
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