Comment #40 on issue 235 by trelliscorp: Support the Javascript E4X extension
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=235
To anyone who has worked with E4X (or LINQ, Microsoft's implementation), it seems unconscionable not to include it in every browser. As musaadhaider pointed out, the big guys are too focused on execution speed and not on dev productivity.
And who claimed that it wasn't an adopted part of the ECMAScript standard? Check out this first paragraph from the standard itself:
"On 13 June 2002, a group of companies led by BEA Systems proposed a set of programming language extensions adding native XML support to ECMAScript (ECMA-262). The programming language extensions were designed to provide a simple, familiar, general purpose XML programming model that flattens the XML learning curve by leveraging the existing skills and knowledge of one of the largest developer communities worldwide. The benefits of this XML programming model include reduced code complexity, tighter revision cycles, faster time to market, decreased XML footprint requirements and looser coupling between code and XML data."
If the whole purpose of the extension was to make XML programming easier and all these companies agreed that it did... WHY DON'T WE HAVE IT NOW?
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