On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Douglas Crockford wrote: > 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.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic (ok, maybe I can :-P), but jQuery did not exist in 2005. Not until August 2006, and that would've been brand-new jQuery. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
