A Minute With Brendan

Realistically, coming up with show notes for this episode is about as tough as keeping Brendan to under 10 minutes. Give it a listen and trace along with the mentioned Harmony Of My Dreams blog post. The notes are more just hot points this week, enjoy the awesome episode!

• A new version of the language and it will choke old browsers.
• Targeting a polyfill approach for allowing new versions of JavaScript, instead of attribute specification in tags.
• IE6 sucks at so much else ... people should just drop IE6 frankly.
• typeof null will finally === null and other similar issues will be flagged as early errors (WOO HOO!)
• Five finger of fate (incompatible syntax of early error):
  1. Thumb: Removing global object from scope chain.
  2. Index: Typeof Change: fixing various bugs that make JS wonky.
  3. Middle: for-in paren-free and pythonic
  4. Ring: Top Secret
  5. Pinky: Even More Secret
• HTML guys have it easy with their SGML tag deprecation - JavaScript's C-like language syntax makes this near impossible.
• So awesome, I think developers will want to do it.