FAQ Topic - What is JScript?

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FAQ Topic - What is JScript?
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JScript is Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript.

Questions that are specific to Microsoft's JScript may also
be appropriately asked at:
microsoft.publi c.scripting.jsc ript
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[Evertjan.]

FAQ server wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

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FAQ Topic - What is JScript?
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JScript is Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript.

Questions that are specific to Microsoft's JScript may also
be appropriately asked at:
microsoft.publi c.scripting.jsc ript

This FAQ entry has a temporary nature and
can be discontinued effective 2008-04-01, since:

04.01.07 Redmond, WA

The 4th of january!

Today it was officially announced that Microsoft is planning to
discontinue client-side JScript support effective 10.08.07

That is not a very effective way of planning effective, MS.

Is this 2007/08/10 or 2007/10/08?

The engine
will be blocked and removed on the scheduled August auto-update for
Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. The head of Microsoft Windows
Scripting department reminds to complete the move to VBScript
equivalents during the April-July transition period for all affected
solutions.

More information as well as useful tips for JScript to VBScript
transition can be found at:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155073.aspx

Btw, VBscript itself will be discontinued on 2009/04/01,
open sources say: <http://slashdoc.org/vbscriptDecapit ated/>
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Dylan Parry]

Evertjan. wrote:

>04.01.07 Redmond, WA

The 4th of january!

1st of April.

>Today it was officially announced that Microsoft is planning to
discontinue client-side JScript support effective 10.08.07

That is not a very effective way of planning effective, MS.

Presumably you just didn't note the date :)

--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org | http://webpageworkshop.co.uk

The opinions stated above are not necessarily representative of
those of my cats. All opinions expressed are entirely your own.

[Richard Cornford]

Evertjan. wrote:

FAQ server wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

<snip>

>Today it was officially announced that Microsoft ...

<snip>

Why have you attributed this to "FAQ server"? It was not part of the
message that you are replaying to and apparently quoting.

Richard.

[VK]

On Apr 1, 10:00 pm, Dylan Parry <use...@dylanpa rry.comwrote:

That is not a very effective way of planning effective, MS.

Presumably you just didn't note the date :)

I presume he did: this is why he posted a bogus URL for the VBScript
"news" just like I did for mine. In the US we call it "British humor"
sometimes: more serious your face is and more difficult to understand
that you are joking: so funnier the joke supposes to be.

:-)

P.S. See
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....d6b0b690c12ddc

[Dylan Parry]

VK wrote:

On Apr 1, 10:00 pm, Dylan Parry <use...@dylanpa rry.comwrote:

>>That is not a very effective way of planning effective, MS.

Presumably you just didn't note the date :)

I presume he did: this is why he posted a bogus URL for the VBScript
"news" just like I did for mine. In the US we call it "British humor"
sometimes: more serious your face is and more difficult to understand
that you are joking: so funnier the joke supposes to be.

Ah... That I didn't see your post in this thread (mainly because it
wasn't) probably had a lot to do with me "not getting it"! Being
British, I tend to understand that sort of humour <g>

P.S. See
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....d6b0b690c12ddc

:)

--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org | http://webpageworkshop.co.uk

The opinions stated above are not necessarily representative of
those of my cats. All opinions expressed are entirely your own.

[Evertjan.]

Richard Cornford wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

Evertjan. wrote:

>FAQ server wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

<snip>

>>Today it was officially announced that Microsoft ...

<snip>

Why have you attributed this to "FAQ server"? It was not part of the
message that you are replaying to and apparently quoting.

I did not, you must have been confused,
as a new quote origin was suggested
with the word "since":

This FAQ entry has a temporary nature and
can be discontinued effective 2008-04-01, since:

04.01.07 Redmond, WA

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Richard Cornford]

Evertjan. wrote:

Richard Cornford wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

>Evertjan. wrote:

>>FAQ server wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:

<snip>

>>>Today it was officially announced that Microsoft ...

<snip>

Why have you attributed this to "FAQ server"? It was not part of the
message that you are replaying to and apparently quoting.

I did not, you must have been confused,

I observed a message with a single attribution and no indication of a
quote from, or a citation, of a separate source.

as a new quote origin was suggested
with the word "since":

<snip>

That does not follow as a new section of a quote from a previous message
may well be preceded with "since", for example to suggest that the
person being quoted had already made the point.

Richard.