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Re:Allora – Use promises on any JavaScript object by pythonistah on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:51PM (#12118477)
It uses Proxy and Promise classes.
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Re:Allora – Use promises on any JavaScript object by izym on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:18PM (#12118553)
The point is to take APIs that don't and wrap them with said classes, not to provide an alternative.
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Re:Allora – Use promises on any JavaScript object by pythonistah on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:37PM (#12118617)
What percentage of browsers in use implement Proxy and Promise classes? 40 percent?
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Re:Allora – Use promises on any JavaScript object by JonathonW on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:49PM (#12119237)
Per Can I Use [1], promises are in 74% of browsers (only current major browser not supporting them is IE11) and proxies are in 57% of browsers.

Promise is pretty easily polyfilled for older browsers; proxies are more problematic and I don't know whether or not any of the existing proxy polyfills will work with Allora.

[1] http://caniuse.com/

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Re:Allora – Use promises on any JavaScript object by pythonistah on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @12:44AM (#12119736)
The data behind their world wide browser stats is questionable. - their combined IE and Edge market share totals to only 8%.

On https://www.netmarketshare.com combined IE market share is 31% and Edge is 5%.

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Re:Allora – Use promises on any JavaScript object by nilliams on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @06:43AM (#12120950)
What about IE8-10? I agree with pythonistah, that can-i-use data doesn't really map to real-world usage.
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Re:Allora – Use promises on any JavaScript object by pythonistah on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @08:59AM (#12121445)
Perhaps they only collect data from browsers hitting their web site?
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Re:Allora – Use promises on any JavaScript object by gianlucaguarini on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:00AM (#12119804)
you got it, there are many libraries on npm doing the same but none was build with less than 50 lines of code
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