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kevingadd on July 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Pain of HTML5

Article starts off complaining that IE8 doesn't have EcmaScript 5 support, when ES5 was finalized after IE8 came out. Not exactly a winner on detail here... Much of the stuff he complains about not having access to is a working draft or non-standardized browser-specific API.

tomjen3 on July 16, 2012 [–]

It works in more than two different browsers, which makes it a defacto standard.

The real reason is that W3C is way too slow in standarlizing these things. It shouldn't take nearly as long.

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