Re: A UUID function for web developers

Actually, I haven't posted a single thing on any message board for at least 15 years, aside from two or three postings regarding some personal legal issues. I generally prefer others to do the grunt work, which I snobbishly assert they consistently do. Plus, I like shielding myself from the brutality that takes place on these public forums.

Soon after beginning web development, it was constantly hit and miss:
-No auto-grow text;
-No way to detect text overflow (what is the point of ellipses then);
-No parent selector in CSS (the parent of the element receiving the focus has the style I want to affect);
-No way to retrieve pages cross-domain (is there a point to CORS other than hindering web developers in delivering really powerful and versatile applications);
-No way to color text with a gradient brush;
-No way to have an element positioned relative to another in CSS based on its height or width at the time of rendering (top: calc(elementB.top - height));
-No nested CSS rules (.Yo:hover{a{color: red;}});
-No way to have style rules based on the element's parent client area (I want the height of one element to grow with the height of another sibling element);
-No built-in standard hashing functions;
-Getting the caret placed on an empty line of an editable box is not user friendly using a mouse;
-No style rule that can restricts what can be typed in an editable box;
-z-index has no effect on inline elements;
-No operator overloading in javascript (how can I fully take advantage of getters and setters if they don't apply to arrays);
-No "non-hacky" way to open the file save dialog (why??);
-No way to prompt the user to get the browser to take certain actions (hey, maybe I need more local storage, what is a gigabyte or two in this day and age);
-No access to the red wavy lines internally used by browsers for misspelled words.

Those are some of the browser-related shortcomings that have been beating me up in the last week. I have been encountering a streak of things I cannot do with browsers, at least not without really ugly and inefficient workarounds. I complained not once over any of them, keeping the Internet clean of my ravings, until I encountered this one unique outrage: the absence of a UUID generator function in, of all things, browsers!

This is just jaw dropping! I have an impulse to invoke the space-time continuum, odds, groupthink and the status quo, but it's all just too much; I can't separate one thought in the violent collisions of thoughts of outrage. My head reels round and round, round and round. People! People, listen to me:

I am discussing the addition of a fundamental element, something as essential as the integer.