Universal Feature Detection

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

David Foley wrote:
> Please forgive me if I'm polluting the list, and re-direct me if I am,
> but considering that  there has been so much focus on browser
> implementation,  that JavaScript is also employable in various
> 'environments' (IDE's, Servers etc.) and that all of these environments
> avail different features to developers, that a universal / standard
> feature detection API, perhaps through a standardised global Environment
> object, would be prudent.
> 
> Are there any plans to do such?

There will probably be some kind of module system in ES-Harmony
(which will be prototyped before then). It would make sense for that
to support querying whether a given module is available, its version,
and other metainformation about it.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥