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by mrspeaker 4623 days ago
The ES6 bits makes me all smiley: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=717379%...

I wish Chrome would start adding them, then I could start using them for personal/particularly nerdy projects.
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robin_reala 4623 days ago
I guess you’ve seen kangax’s charts, but he does a good job of tracking progress: http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/

Firefox 26 will introduce Array.of, Math.fround, Generators and Structs.

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recuter 4623 days ago
That seems to be coming along nicely but it looks like almost nothing made it into IE11 - so doesn't that mean we missed the boat for a few more years? I want to use this stuff so badly already. Gah.
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megaman821 4623 days ago
Since TypeScript is somewhat tracking ES6 proposals it looks like Microsoft will be quick to include it once the spec is finalized.
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recuter 4623 days ago
Will the spec be finalized before IE11 ships? Seems unlikely.
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megaman821 4623 days ago
Well since IE11 shipped already with Windows 8.1, no.

I don't expect Microsoft to follow Google and Mozilla with their 6-week release cadence. If they keep to their yearly releases, we will see new features integrated into IE much faster than ever before. As a web developer, I can live with 1 year or less of waiting when specs are finalized.

The real problem is Windows XP has been abandoned so those users cannot upgrade past IE8. They must either upgrade their systems or switch to another browser.

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