Sigh. Probably scarcity of time and an insufficiently strong stomach rather than any real principle. FWIW, searching for "ES5 Appendix B" and "Harmless whatwg" at < https://code.google.com/p/google-caja/source/browse/trunk/src/com/google/caja/ses/whitelist.js> gives 6 and 13 candidates respectively. It is also illuminating to look at the other commented entries on this whitelist.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Domenic Denicola < [email protected]> wrote: > From: Mark S. Miller [[email protected]] > > > Much as I hate to say this, but if all major JS platforms support some > harmless feature, cross-browser web content will come to depend on that > feature. In that case, we are better off doing the work to codify an agreed > common behavior for that feature, rather than have all implementors guess > separately how to best be compatible with what other implementors are > guessing. Remember block nested functions as a cautionary tale. > > While I (sadly) agree with the sentiment, I wonder why this logic hasn't > been applied to `String.prototype.blink()` and friends? ;) > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain Cheers, --MarkM
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