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		mnemonik on July 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ractive.js Many of these frameworks want to support IE 8, which is the default browser of windows 7. IE 8 only supports Object.defineProperty with DOM objects[0], which can be infuriating. No one should use __defineGetter__ and __defineSetter__ because they are non-standard and deprecated[1]. [0] http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/#define-property-ie... [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... Edit: left this tab open and I see this point has since been made, but I will leave the comment anyways.

mannix on July 25, 2013 [–]

Yes, the only reason I'd use __defineGetter__ would be a fallback for Object#defineProperty.

I'm curious if the IE8 limitation could be worked around, using something like:

    if (ie8)
        RactiveBaseModel.prototype = HTMLAnchorElement.prototype;

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