Re: A UUID function for web developers

You have this backwards. Things that are easily polyfilled are the lowest
priority
for being added to the platform in advance of standardization. As Martin
Thomson
has observed, browsers already contain the core mechanisms necessary to
generate UUIDs, namely a cryptographic PRNG.

More pragmatically, you've now posted 7 messages to this thread and you
haven't
convinced anyone. At this point, I would suggest that your time would be
much
better spent trying to convince someone to standardize this function,
rather than
us to implement in advance of a standard.

-Ekr

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 1:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> It is unreasonable to require every developer to go searching for a UUID
> generator function, and quite possibly, dissuade them from ever using
> UUID's for a many number of reasons by virtue of a UUID generator not being
> readily at hand. Taking the initiative of independently adding the function
> will neither be the first nor the last exception to the rule of always
> following standards, and it definitely qualifies as one of the more
> justified ones.
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