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FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript?
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ECMAScript is the international standard for JavaScript. JScript
3.0 and JavaScript 1.5 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.
// I would put that 327 sentence last, as a paragraph.
// Is there an ISO version?
Note that ECMAScript did not attempt to standardize
the document object model.
// AFAIR, it does not deal with it.
+ ECMAScript does not cover the document object model.
http://www.ecma-international.org/pu...s/Ecma-262.htm
// ISO/IEC 16262 is
// issued by *the* international standards organisation, has fewer
// errors, and might be considered to use a nicer font.
// It is also free as PDF.
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The current edition is ECMA-262, 3rd Edition. There is some
// ^ of what?
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).
// There, "some support" is not appropriate. It may be that 5.0 &
// 1.3 did not implement everything that 3rd introduced; but surely
// they contain most of what 3rd calls for? In any case, few are
// now interested in those versions?
// DRAFT:
ECMAScript is the international standard for javascript. It does not
cover the Document Object Model. The current published editions are
ECMA-262 3rd Edition (2000) and ISO/IEC 16262 2nd Edition (2002). A
new version is (2008) in development.
http://www.ecma-international.org/pu...s/Ecma-262.htm
<ISO link also here>
// I don't think that the support details are necessary; if they are
// wanted, they need to be rewritten with new facts for 2008.
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.
// ISO version of 327?
// If no download link for 327 can be given, and I think anyway,
// links to the ECMA and ISO home, or home-of-ordering, pages might
// be appropriate.
// There is already "What is JScript?"; that could be changed
// into "What are JavaScript and JScript?; that would be a better
// place for the aforementioned support details, if wanted.
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