> I think it's a bit annoying -- to the point of being disrespectful -- that Brendan doesn't mention V8 in his history of JavaScript

Bullcrap. Why would V8 deserve any more mention than Spidermonkey (which had none, by the way) in a talk about the semantics and language evolutions of javascript when it's Gecko/Spidermonkey which pioneered and implemented roughly 95% of these evolutions in the first place? Why would it deserve more than Trident, which — through xmlhttprequest — is the one responsible for the vast majority of the language's actual popularity? Because it's your pet runtime and you dont like others?

> So it would be nice to see some respect where it's clearly due...

You may want to take this advice for yourself, your comment is dismissive, insulting, contemptuous and contemptible.