JavaScript: Who is in charge? What is the official logo?

[petermichaux]

Hi,

I am getting confused about who is actually in charge of the JavaScript
specs. I've read it is the ECMA that sets the standards for what is
ECMAScript complient. But who further specifies this into JavaScript?

And where is the official JavaScript logo?

Thanks,
Peter

 

[RobG]

Hi,

I am getting confused about who is actually in charge of the JavaScript
specs. I've read it is the ECMA that sets the standards for what is
ECMAScript complient. But who further specifies this into JavaScript?

ECMA specify what is in the ECMAScript language.
<URL:http://www.ecma-international.org/>

Various script environments then make themselves ECMA compliant (more or
less) and also implement extensions. JScript has quite few extensions,
JScript .NET even more.

JScript
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...html/1e9b3876-3d38-4fd8-8596-1bbfe2330aa9.asp>
JScript .NET
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ript7/html/jsoriProgrammingWithJScriptNET.asp>


Similarly, Mozilla.org has implemented their 'SpiderMonkey' script
engine that is ECMAScript compliant and has many extensions.

Mozilla.org's scripting pages
<URL:http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/>
About SpiderMonkey
<URL:http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/>


Much of the Mozilla documentation is either based on or a direct copy of
the original Netscape documentation.

And where is the official JavaScript logo?

Sun owns the registered trademark "in the US and other countries" but
don't seem to have any logo for it.

 

[Julian Turner]

(e-mail address removed) wrote:

[snip]

But who further specifies this into JavaScript?

[/snip]

Brendan Eich, original creator of JavaScript, is actively involved.
For the future of JavaScript, his blog at the following address is
worth a look:-

<URL:http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/>

Regards

Julian Turner

 

[Stephen Kellett]

Sun owns the registered trademark "in the US and other countries" but
don't seem to have any logo for it.

We couldn't find a logo when we needed one for our JavaScript
coverage/profiler products so our artist came up with a scroll to
represent "script" and put the letters JS underneath.

You can see an example here:

http://www.softwareverify.com/javaScriptPerformanceValidator/index.html

The larger images look better, but those are not on the website, but in
the product.

We had the same problems with Python and Ruby and for Java we
deliberately went around the "coffee cup" idiom to avoid possibly
running into Sun's lawyers - so we created our own coffee cup.

The only one that has been totally OK is Lua, where they make it crystal
clear that you are encouraged to use their logo to promote Lua.

Stephen