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version - javascript 1.8.6

[WHAT]

] the following list outlines features that are new to the js langauage in this version.

[WHY]

] String - object now offers Harmony 'startsWith', 'endsWith', and 'contains' methods (bug 772733).
] The String methods 'link' and 'anchor' now escape the '"' (quotation mark) (bug 352437).
] Experimental support for strawman 'ParallelArray' object has been implemented (bug 778559).
] Support to iterate 'Map/Set' (bug 725909).
] Disabled E4X for web content by default (bug 778851).
] __exposedProps__ - must now be set for Chrome JavaScript objects exposed to content. Attempts to access Chrome objects from content without __exposedProps__ set will fail silently (bug 553102).

[WHERE]

] firefox 17

[WHEN]

]

[EXAMPLE]

] see REF (1) for usage examples of most

[HOW-TO]

]

[REFERENCE]

] MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Firefox_17_for_developers#JavaScript
] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/17?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Firefox_17_for_developers#JavaScript
] MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/yek4tbz0(v=vs.94).aspx

HTML

Support for the sandbox attribute on the <iframe> element has been added. (bug 341604)

CSS

Support for @supports at-rule defined in CSS3 Conditional Rules specification has been landed. It is disabled by default. Developers can try it by setting layout.css.supports-rule.enabled to true (bug 649740).

Support for the CSS Selectors Level 4 pseudo-class :dir() allowing selection of elements based on their directionality has landed. (bug 562169)

Support for the newly specified isolate-override value of the CSS unicode-bidi value has landed (bug 774335)

Our prefixed implementation of box-sizing now takes into account min-height and max-height. One step closer to its unprefixing (bug 308801)

DOM

Support for CSSSupportsRule interface defined in CSS3 Conditional Rules specification has been landed (bug 649740)

Support for WheelEvent object and wheel event have been landed (bug 719320).

Support DOM Meta key on Linux again (bug 751749).

On HTMLMediaElement, a new method, mozGetMetadata, that returns a javascript object whose properties represent metadata from the playing media resource as {key: value} pairs (bug 763010).

Support for Range.intersectsNode has been added again; it has been removed in Gecko 1.9 (bug 579638.

Range.compareBoundaryPoints() now throws a DOMException with the NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR value when the comparison method is invalid (bug 714279) .

WEBGL

Unchanged

SVG

Unchanged

MATHML

The parsing of the align attribute on <mtable> elements has been updated to treat optional spaces more correctly.

XUL

XUL key element supports "os" modifier which is Win key (Super or Hyper key) (bug 751749).

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ID: 1705

NAME: javascript-1-8-6

DESCRIPTION: whats NEW ...] string startsWith, endsWith, contains methods, ] string methods link + anchor escape the quote ] ParallelArray object ] iterate Map/Set ] disabeld E4X

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