In comp.lang.javascript message <P-********************@telcove.net>,
Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:30:59, Randy Webb <Hi************@aol.composted:
>Dr J R Stockton said the following on 1/28/2007 2:38 PM:
>In comp.lang.javascript message <45***********************@news.sunsite.
dk>, Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:01, FAQ server <ja********@dotinternet.be>
posted:
>>FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript?
>>http://www.ecma-international.org/pu...tandards/Ecma-
262.htm
And the URL for the Errata?
You find it and I will add it.
I found it a while ago, and I put it in the appropriate place in my Web
site.
Google for ECMA-262 Errata; the fourth entry, <
http://interglacial.com/j
avascript_spec/00cover.htmlis evidently germane; it links to
<http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/E262-3-errata.html>. "Previous"
from 00cover.html gives index.html, which says
Previous ToC Index Next
ECMAScript Language Specification
(HTML version)
* Cover page
* Table of Contents
* Index
* Download a zip file of all of this
* All of this as one big HTML file
* (Errata, at mozilla.org)
the last 6 lines being links. We ought to have known about this; more
local search tools can be used on HTML than on PDF, and it's easier to
quote from.
>>ECMAScript is the international standard for javascript.
No; ECMAScript is a multinational standard.
ECMAScript is an international standard.
European is not International, only (for the moment) multinational.
>We now know that the International Standard is ISO/IEC 16262, which
should additionally be cited.
We do? I have never seen anything that says ISO/IEC 16262 is "the
International Standard" other than you claiming it to be.
Perhaps you have failed to notice that "ISO/IEC" includes two instances
of "I". The role of ISO is explained in <http://www.iso.org/>. Don't
bother with any wrong IEC; the right one is
www.iec.ch.
Page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScriptsays that 262 was changed
for alignment with 16262, implying 16262's superior authority.
Then, of course, ECMA-262 (PDF) itself, in "Brief History" paragraph 3,
makes it rather clear.
Quoting from the full HTML of 262, by copy'n'paste,
That ECMA Standard was submitted to ISO/IEC JTC 1 for adoption
under the fast-track procedure, and approved as international
standard ISO/IEC 16262, in April 1998. The ECMA General Assembly
of June 1998 approved the second edition of ECMA-262 to keep it
fully aligned with ISO/IEC 16262. Changes between the first and
the second edition are editorial in nature.
Perhaps you've not looked very much.
>>as
another browser is mentioned the commonest should also be mentioned -
and so should one or two of the best.
The reference to Netscape should be changed to Mozilla or similar. As
for "one or two of the best", that is way too subjective to even
contemplate.
Then take the advice of the group, noting that "one or two of the best"
does not mean "the best one or two". From what I've read here, Firefox
must be a candidate, and Opera may be.
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