Re: Deprecated html elements and javascript functions

It's in 5.1 in the (informative) Compatibility section [1], and in 6.0 in
the the features for Web Browsers [2].

So if it's in 6.0 it's not deprecated right? But then why does MDN [3] and
MSDN [4] says it is?

[1] http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-B.2.2
[2] http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-unescape-string
[3]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/unescape
[4] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dz4x90hk(v=vs.94).aspx



On 12 March 2014 17:05, PhistucK <phistuck@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hm, why is it on the JavaScript (ECMAScript) reference? as far as I
> remember, it is not part of (any) such standard. If anything, it should be
> in the DOM reference as I believe only browsers implement it.
> The DOM reference has (or used to have, I did not check recently) a field
> for the status (recommendation, deprecated and so on) which can be used
> exactly for this purpose.
>
>
> ☆*PhistucK*
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Paul Verbeek <paul@webinthehat.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Max,
>>
>> Even though that explains why it's deprecated, I think it should still be
>> on WPD. It's widely implemented by browsers and used in some projects.
>>
>> I was speaking to Doug and Eliot, and they had the idea to add flags for
>> things like this (deprecated, obsolete, etc.) like MDN does.
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/unescape
>>
>> For now, I just added it to the 'depracted' group of related articles, so
>> we can easily filter them out when we have the flags.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
>> On 11 March 2014 16:39, Max Polk <maxpolk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  On 3/11/2014 1:26 PM, Paul Verbeek wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>  I'm working on the docs for the unescape function. This function is
>>> deprecated and the only way to tag that is at the See Also section.
>>>
>>>  I think a deprecated function or html elements should say that it's
>>> deprecated in a more noticeable way. Maybe a message on top saying
>>> something like "This function/object/element is deprecated. We advice
>>> against using it in new projects. Please use with caution.".
>>>
>>>  Paul.
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems to have been deprecated in favor of a replacement:unescape ->
>>> decodeURI or decodeURIComponent
>>>
>>
>>
>