Deprecate methods that replace browser features

[montlebalm]

Addresses #213.

This PR removes a few methods that were made redundant by functionality built-in to supported browsers. Please double check the changes -- especially to the doc sources -- and let me know if it looks good to merge.

Changes:

• Removed F2.parse
• Removed F2.stringify
• Removed F2.inArray

FYI, the "Removing" commits below should name the removed method, but it was stripped for some reason.

[markhealey]

Does this include a script for deprecated backwards compat?

[brianbaker]

Does IE8 support indexOf ?

[markhealey]

Doesn't look like it.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/9768663

[brianbaker]

Here's a compatibility table too: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es5/#Array.prototype.indexOf

[montlebalm]

I'm not sure why I thought it was supported in IE8. I checked MDN, but it must have just been too late at night. I will pull that from the PR.

I also haven't created the transition script yet. I thought we'd make a new official repo named "F2-transition-1.5".

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Here's a compatibility table too: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es5/#Array.prototype.indexOf

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[markhealey]

:hand: See note on #213 before this is merged.

[montlebalm]

I added the removed methods back and added @depreciated indicators to the F2.log, F2.parse, and F2.stringify methods. As discussed, IE8 does not have native support for Array.indexOf, so we'll need to keep it around until we move to IE9 as our lowest supported browser.

[montlebalm]

@markhealey @brianbaker merge?

[markhealey]

:+1: