11.9 Using Prototypes to Emulate a Class
The class construct has been around a long time with other languages, but it’s relatively new with JavaScript. Ecma International introduced the class construct with ECMAScript 6 in 2015. All of today’s standard browsers support the class construct, except for Microsoft Internet Explorer. With Microsoft’s phaseout of Internet Explorer, you should not count on IE ever supporting the class construct. Microsoftophiles are in the process of migrating to Edge, but it’ll take a while to finish the transition. In the meantime, you should be familiar with legacy code techniques that implement the object-oriented paradigm without the class construct. Legacy code is code that is used today even though it’s considered ...
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