You got me.. Although the multitude of awful shims people invented would tend to support my assessment that a singular way of doing things was needed. Oh, and

You got me.. Although the multitude of awful shims people invented would tend to support my assessment that a singular way of doing things was needed. Oh, and all the blog posts explaining "this" and prototype inheritance.. I take it back, you didn't get me. JavaScript needed a coherent common syntax for doing what everyone was trying to do anyway.