FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2008-02-03)

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http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm

ECMAScript is the international standard for javascript. JScript
3.0 and JavaScript 1.2 (available with version 4. browsers) are
more or less ECMAScript compliant. In addition ECMA 327 defines
the Compact Profile of ECMAScript by describing the features from
ECMA 262 that may be omitted in some resource-constrained
environments. Note that ECMAScript did not attempt to standardize
the document object model.

The current edition is ECMA-262, 3rd Edition. There is some
support for this edition in JScript 5.0 and JavaScript 1.3.
JScript 5.5 and JavaScript 1.5, in Netscape 6.1 and later, are
compliant (JavaScript 1.5 in Netscape 6 missed some methods).


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[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected].

ECMAScript is the international standard for javascript.

There, "is the" implies uniqueness; "is an" would not.

The International Standard is ISO/IEC 16262; it should be cited.

ISO Standards are recognised world-wide; generally to be honoured, but
to be avoided where it would otherwise might be thought that they were
honored.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

[...] FAQ server [...] posted:

ECMAScript is the international standard for javascript.

There, "is the" implies uniqueness; "is an" would not.

Different editions aside, there is only one ECMAScript standard.
Different designations (here: ECMA-262-3 and ISO/IEC 16262) do not
mean different content but only different organizations which have
approved that specification as a standard. Incidentally, the
ECMAScript Specification states that very fact in its preamble
("Brief History").

The International Standard is ISO/IEC 16262; it should be cited.

ISO Standards are recognised world-wide; [...]

Ecma standards are also recognized world-wide.


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