On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> In the public Date/time proposal, the Date.parse static method  
> returns a Date. This is a bit odd, because the current javascript  
> Date.parse method returns a number (nr. of ms since epoch). Is this  
> by design?

That's a mistake, which Lars noticed and corrected recently.

> Is there some compatibility-strategy defined? I couldn't find one...
>

The strategy is backward compatibility except in a few hard cases  
where the current (since 1997, ES1) semantics are so confusing and  
buggy that cleanups probably improve real-world code correctness. See  
http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/proposals/bug_fixes.html.

/be

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