Bug 5381
| Summary: | Support E4X | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Arthur Langereis <arthur_webkit> |
| Component: | JavaScriptCore | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | Enhancement | CC: | alex, andersca, bird0fprey, cmarcelo, electricnet, emacemac7, fclee, ian, marcus, mike, mrowe, robin, webmaster, wiredearp, xanthor+bz, zoshe |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 420+ | ||
| Hardware: | Mac | ||
| OS: | OS X 10.4 | ||
| URL: | http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm | ||
Arthur Langereis
JavaScriptCore should support E4X.
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Joost de Valk (AlthA)
Reassigning to webkit-unassigned, to make sure more people see this.
Joost de Valk (AlthA)
Sounds like a valid request.
Frederick C. Lee
I'm an OS X developer hired to add OS X support to a MS product, here in Silicon Valley, CA. XML is the data vector between the two worlds. I *NEED* E4X support in Safari.
Firefox appears to be the ONLY browser that supports E4X:
var e = <employees>
<employee id="1"><name>Joe</name><age>20</age></employee>
<employee id="2"><name>Sue</name><age>30</age></employee>
</employees>;
var names = e..name; // get all the names in e
Safari can't handle the above code.
Firefox/Mozilla can.
Apple claims Safari is the *best* browser.
WHERE'S E4X?????
Ric.
fclee@mimosasystems.com
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Please leave the rhetoric out of comments in Bugzilla. It detracts from the technical nature of the content.
Marcel
Can someone outline a reason why this isn't a major priority?
e4x is the best thing to happen to JavaScript, especially server-side implementations, what are the politics behind it not being included? I guess I am trying to understand both, is it still not on the roadmap, and why not.
Thank you for your time,
Marcel
Robin
Is there no way to vote on bugs? Why is support for the latest ECMAScript standard not higher priority - why has this still not been assigned to anyone?
Mark Rowe (bdash)
*** Bug 34678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Robert
I to would like to vote for webkit to have e4x. It would be so much fun having it.
Alex Milowski
Just for reference, this is ECMA Standard 357, ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification, 2nd Edition (December 2005)
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm
Anders Carlsson
E4X has been removed from Firefox so I don't see the point in us supporting it, let's close this bug.