Firefox simply got lucky in the case of the referenced bug, because
some web pages serve different code depending on what browser they
encounter.


On 27 November 2014 at 13:14, Mathias Bynens <mathi...@opera.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <phil...@opera.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Mathias Bynens <mathi...@opera.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <phil...@opera.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> It sure sounds like 'contains' would be less likely to cause trouble,
>>>> and is also a slightly better name IMHO.
>>>>
>>>> Is Mozilla on board with renaming it? If they're not keen, I think
>>>> following their lead with 'contains' makes more sense.
>>>
>>> The renaming of `contains` to `includes` was decided at the recent
>>> TC39 meeting: 
>>> https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2014-11/nov-18.md#51--44-arrayprototypecontains-and-stringprototypecontains
>>> `contains` was breaking the web (for both `String` and `Array`).
>>
>> That's really unfortunate, it's going to be silly to have e.g.
>> DOMStringList.contains but Array.includes...
>
> Yep. But it is what it is. :(
>
>> What kind of content is breaking, and how has Firefox been able to
>> ship with "".contains since November 2012?
>
> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=409858 is an example.
>
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