Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:40:44 +0200, Lachlan Hunt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Would it be acceptable if I defined one, but made it optional for
implementers to support? Or at least optional for ECMAScript
implementations? That way an implementation can choose to support it
if feature detection is necessary for the language and there is no
other way to do it.
What's the point of making the feature string optional, exactly?
To avoid forcing implementers to bother implementing such a useless
feature, and potentially lying about their support. Basically, this
should only be for languages other than ECMAScript that don't have other
detection mechanisms available, and where the programmer isn't always in
control of which DOM implementation is in use where the program is run.
(If the programmer is in control of that, then feature detection is
useless since they can just check the documentation)
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