Subj : Re: javascript:reply('37004') does not work
To   : Leon
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon Mar 07 2005 01:54 pm

Leon wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:51:08 -0800, Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net> wrote:
> 
>> For web compatibility, I recently (after Firefox 1.0, 1.0.1, and any  
>> 1.0.x release we might do later) changed the reserved-identifier 
>> error  into a strict warning.  IE apparently allows function 
>> f(char){...}.  See  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240317.
>>
>> So in Firefox 1.1 and other products based on the Mozilla 1.8 
>> milestone  (or later), Leon's page will work as it does in IE.
>>
>> But this IE-induced slop does fly in the face of ECMA-262 Edition 3  
>> section 7.5.3.
>>
>> /be
> 
> 
> So, if I understood correct, this problem is a temporal problem.


Sure, it's temporary in that there will be future Firefox releases off 
of the Mozilla trunk, but for now, with 1.0 and 1.0.1 in the field, you 
might want to change your code to avoid using reserved identifiers.

/be

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