This great set

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This great set of slides from Google covers in some detail the features coming in EcmaScript 5.  ES5 offers the possibility of bringing the best out of JavaScripts, cleaning up some of the rough patches and making it generally far more useful for general purpose programming.

Best of all, ES5 is written in such a way that it can largely be decomposed back into traditional JavaScript for browsers that ship today.

For the last few months, we have been laying the ground work for adopting ES5…