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Brendan Eich (2014-03-27T06:36:42.000Z)

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Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
> on Android 2.3.6 (or lower) you can [try this 
> page](http://www.3site.eu/jstests/configurable.html) which will show 
> an alert like
>
> ```
>
> Sorry for the initial false alarm, at least I am sure few didn't know 
> about the getters and setters bug in actually quite recent Android 2 
> browsers.

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) may be quite recent on a lower-end phone, but 
it is incredibly out of date and not being maintained. Especially its 
old WebKit fork. V8 was backported, but that was in 2010 -- pretty sure 
it is not patched up to anywhere near current level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android_2.2.E2.80.932.2.3_Froyo_.28API_level_8.29

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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-04-11T22:43:20.931Z)

Andrea Giammarchi wrote:

> Sorry for the initial false alarm, at least I am sure few didn't know 
> about the getters and setters bug in actually quite recent Android 2 
> browsers.

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) may be quite recent on a lower-end phone, but 
it is incredibly out of date and not being maintained. Especially its 
old WebKit fork. V8 was backported, but that was in 2010 -- pretty sure 
it is not patched up to anywhere near current level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android_2.2.E2.80.932.2.3_Froyo_.28API_level_8.29

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