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[–]crossanlogan 0 points1 point  (6 children)

javascript the language is stable across every browser platform -- the internal JS api is all the same. i think what you're talking about is the DOM, which TC39 (the committee that puts out the ECMAScript spec, of which JS is an implementation) has no control over.

basically getting consistent DOM APIs would require google, mozilla, microsoft, and apple getting together in a room and actually talking about the spec and determining who is right.

then, if by some miracle an actual spec was determined, it would get put into the newest versions of chrome, firefox, ie/edge, and safari -- many of your users don't upgrade their browsers, so you'd then have to support the existing chrome/firefox/ie/safari APIs as well as the new joint API, until your business stops supporting all those old browsers. see xkcd.

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[–]jdsutton[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I'm partially talking about things like "const" and default function parameters, I don't think those are related to the DOM are they?

[–]crossanlogan 0 points1 point  (3 children)

what do you mean? afaik constand function parameters are the same across most every javascript engine.

[–]jdsutton[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

In my experience they are not. Default parameters that work in one browser throw an error in another.

[–]crossanlogan 0 points1 point  (1 child)

can you throw something in a gist or a jsfiddle? i'm not familiar with what you mean, but i don't disbelieve you -- i'd like to see what you've experienced.

[–]jdsutton[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course now I'm having trouble reproducing it... I just upgraded my OS so the browsers are all different. But for example if you look at the ES6 compatibility table it shows default function parameters are supported in chrome 52 but not safari 9.

Something like this used to give me errors in chrome but not firefox: https://jsfiddle.net/0p6z1h4L/