- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:38:27 +0100
- To: "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>
- CC: public-script-coord@w3.org
Mark S. Miller wrote: > Just now, by chance, I came across > <http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Web_ECMAScript> which enumerates other > alleged conflicts. What is the status of that page? As Geoffrey siad, that is just a wiki page. It doesn't have any formal status, nor do I know of any plans to give its contents any formal status. None of the behaviour described on that page is required by HTML5 except what has already been mentioned. However it does document things that are required for ECMAScript implementations that want to work with web content, as evidenced by the fact that even greenfield implementations, such as V8, implement the things described on that page. Personally I would like to see complete documentation of the things that the ECMAScript spec does not cover but are nevertheless required behavior for implementations intending to be Web compatible. Then the next time someone wishes to implement a novel javascript engine in a web browser, they get to focus on interesting things like optimising performance rather than wasting time reverse engineering the behavior of the competition just to get the web to run.
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