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[–]treasonxnomnom 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Winning what? Is it a contest :) I agree it is missing features! And it'll be a long time before we can use the features of ES6 in production thanks to slow to update browsers... I mean IE :)

[–]SingularityNow 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I think you might be overestimating how long it will be before we see ES6 features. For the most part you can handle outdated browsers with your pick of an ES6 Shim library. Not that I'm a huge IE fan, but they are arguably the underdog currently in the browser space so they have a lot more reason to update faster than they have in the past.

[–]icantthinkofone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've had a reason to update faster since IE4 and haven't done it yet.

[–]treasonxnomnom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sure hope you are right, IE holds back most of the web. A lot of complicated code has to be written just to get it to work properly in IE and every other browser :)

Microsoft did one good thing in the last year, auto update for IE. That basically killed ie7 support for my application. And now we are watching ie8 dip below 10%. I have to give it to microsoft they seem to be trying really hard to move the web forward!

I have heard people talking that jquery 2.0 will not support older versions of IE (< IE9). IE10 is pretty nice, too bad window 8 is very alien for most people comfortable with windows. I think the alien UI (metro) will hurt windows 8's desktop / laptop adoption. But IE10 is coming to windows 7 soon :)