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June 2009 - Posts

Steps Toward Creating Compatible ECMAScript 5 Implementations

As we’ve discussed in the past , Microsoft has been actively involved in the developing the specification for the next revision of the JavaScript standard, ECMAScript Fifth Edition. We expect that after ECMAScript 5’s completion and formal adoption later
Posted by GauravS | 12 Comments

Native JSON Support in IE8 and Tracking the ECMAScript Fifth Edition Draft Specification

Internet Explorer 8 was the first browser to introduce native support for encoding and decoding JSON. While we were finalizing the JSON support to be introduced in IE8, the ECMAScript Fifth Edition (ES5) Draft Specification was still under active development.

Serializing the value of empty DOM elements using native JSON in IE8

With native JSON support enabled in IE8, users can now take advantage of the built-in JSON.stringify and JSON.parse methods to serialize and deserialize JScript values to JSON text and vice versa. However, there is a known issue in IE8’s native JSON implementation,
Posted by GauravS | 7 Comments
 
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