Isn't the early error required only for strict code?

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> When SpiderMonkey tried to implement an early error for cases like this:
>
>   alert(08)
>
> as the current spec draft requires, we got bug reports about web sites
> being broken as a result.  Specifically, there were two issues we
> discovered:
>
> 1)  Things like new Date(2013,08,12);
>
> 2)  Servers sending things like account numbers as numeric literals,
> complete with leading zeros [yes, I know, this is so broken, they're still
> doing it].
>
> I believe we'll be backing out this change; it doesn't seen to be worth
> the web compat hit.
>
> -Boris
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    Cheers,
    --MarkM
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