From: es-discuss [es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org] on behalf of Brendan Eich [bren...@mozilla.com]
> Our duty as a standards body includes specifying de-facto standards which > browsers must implement to interop. __proto__ is one such. It's worth highlighting this aspect of the situation. This duty of standards bodies has, at least from what I can see from my limited vantage point, only recently become apparent. But it's a crucial part of being a standards body today. Relevant reading, from the dawn of time when this was becoming apparent in the HTML/web applications space (2004): http://ln.hixie.ch/?count=1&start=1085764602 (I look forward to people with more experience than me coming by to tell me about how this is not as new-fangled a paradigm as I think it is :) _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
