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Re: [ANN] ECMAScript Support Matrix 2

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Date	2013-06-19 13:56 +0200
Subject	Re: [ANN] ECMAScript Support Matrix 2
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:

>> [full quote]

Please don't.

> From today:
> 
> https://twitter.com/evilpies/status/347097132660039680
> 
> "SpiderMonkey now uses Firefox versions. We release SM standalone with
> every Firefox ESR. There are no more JavaScript versions"

I gathered as much from scanning the latest SpiderMonkey source this 
morning, trying to find out how to properly label the JavaScript versions 
from Firefox 6 on (there were no “New in JavaScript x.y.z” articles in MDN 
anymore, only “Firefox v for developers” articles with “JavaScript” 
sections).

<http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/d2a7cfa34154/js/src/configure.in#l230>

> I assume the matrix will begin to track browser versions now

It already did (from Matrix v2 on) for JavaScript versions after 1.8.6 
(Firefox 5.0.x).  Should it turn out that the SpiderMonkey version 
corresponds with the Mozilla version now, so be it.  That does not mean that 
the Matrix will be switched to browser versions.  SpiderMonkey and other 
ECMAScript implementations still can be used outside of browsers.

Another change will be to track JScript and JScript .NET versions in 
separate rows at least, as now there are both JScript 10.x and JScript .NET 
10.x (previously, JScript versions were 5.x and 9.x, while JScript .NET 
versions were 7.x, 8.x and 10.x).

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[ANN] ECMAScript Support Matrix 2 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-11 19:14 +0200
  Re: ECMAScript Support Matrix 2 "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-06-16 21:41 -0700
    Re: ECMAScript Support Matrix 2 "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-06-16 22:01 -0700
    Re: ECMAScript Support Matrix 2 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-17 09:15 +0200
      Re: ECMAScript Support Matrix 2 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-17 14:50 +0200
  Re: ECMAScript Support Matrix 2 "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-06-16 21:49 -0700
  Re: [ANN] ECMAScript Support Matrix 2 "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-06-18 20:02 -0700
    Re: [ANN] ECMAScript Support Matrix 2 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-19 13:56 +0200

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