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Re:W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database by Groxx on Thursday November 18, 2010 @11:34PM (#1920437)
I'll be obtuse, and claim it means "JavaScript-like". You know, multiple "truthy" values, the inability to detect the difference between arrays and objects, a weird mashup of OO and functional abilities, `=== undefined` but `isNaN()`, and no real difference between integers and floats, and all the math weirdness that goes with them. Browsers implementing the same thing different ways, interacting with a system (the DOM) that's the same but different everywhere, and patched together by multiple, usually-mutually-exclusive libraries that everyone uses instead of the actual language.

(disclaimer: I've come to quite like JS, it's made some of my experiments phenomenally simple. but it's weird.)

Re:W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database by fforw on Friday November 19, 2010 @10:35AM (#1921650)
isNaN() only exists because the real way to detect NaN is so counter intuitive. Lots of people will see "if (x !== x)" and will try to "optimize".