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Firefox 25 is released

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Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by sp332 »

Hey, web audio is now in Firefox! That means all the web apps that did user-agent detection instead of feature detection will have to be updated.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by jessaustin »

sp332 wrote: post #2

Hey, web audio is now in Firefox! That means all the web apps that did user-agent detection instead of feature detection will have to be updated.

Jeez, why can't browser developers be more considerate of the poor put-upon user agent-detecting site developer?

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by sp332 »

jessaustin wrote: post #3
sp332 wrote: post #2

Hey, web audio is now in Firefox! That means all the web apps that did user-agent detection instead of feature detection will have to be updated.

Jeez, why can't browser developers be more considerate of the poor put-upon user agent-detecting site developer?

Haha yeah. User-Agent: ... (Webaudio, like Chrome) ...

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by robin_reala »

mrspeaker wrote: post #6

The ES6 bits makes me all smiley: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=717379%... I wish Chrome would start adding them, then I could start using them for personal/particularly nerdy projects.

I guess you’ve seen kangax’s charts, but he does a good job of tracking progress: http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/

Firefox 26 will introduce Array.of, Math.fround, Generators and Structs.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by asdasf »

How did firefox get development stagnate so badly? We have more workarounds and polyfills for dealing with firefox than we do for dealing with IE now, it is ridiculous.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by sp332 »

asdasf wrote: post #8

How did firefox get development stagnate so badly? We have more workarounds and polyfills for dealing with firefox than we do for dealing with IE now, it is ridiculous.

Development isn't stagnant. They have releases on a 6-week schedule now, that's why each update is smaller. Because of the more frequent releases, features get released as soon as they're ready instead of waiting months or years for a "major release" like they used to.
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