On 28 December 2012 19:55, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com> wrote:
> That is exactly the issue. As long as it was not expected in IE, it > could not be assumed by the cross-browser web. However, mobile changed > MS's tradeoffs. Mobile is currently a separate enough ecosystem, with > IE a sufficiently minor player, that some cross-mobile-platform code > assumes mutable __proto__. Consider it a loss of genetic diversity on > the part of a herd that gets temporarily separated from the rest of > its species. As a result, MS is considering adding mutable __proto__ > to future IE. At that point, it would become a standard, at least de > facto. In that case, we're all better off codifying a semantics and > having this standard be de jure. > All understood, but what's the difference to __defineGetter__? /Andreas
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