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Revision as of 16:10, 26 February 2008
Definition
“ECMAScript is a scripting programming language, standardized by Ecma International in the ECMA-262 specification. The language is widely used on the web, and is often referred to as JavaScript or JScript, after the two primary implementations of the specification.” (Wikipedia), retrieved 12:49, 22 May 2007 (MEST)).
Related entries: AJAX, SVG, XHTML, Sharable Content Object Reference Model, ....
Short history
See the Wikipedia article for the moment ...
References
Standards
- Standard ECMA-262 ECMAScript Language Specification, 3rd edition (December 1999)
- Standard ECMA-357, ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification, 2nd edition (December 2005)
- This is a new standard that isn't very much implemented yet.
Tutorials
- Object-Oriented JavaScript, Webreference, 2007 by Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea
E4X
- Fremantle, Paul and Anthony Elder (1005). AJAX and scripting Web services with E4X, Part 1, IBM Works, HTML
- E4X Tutorial, W3Schools.
- Introducing E4X (by Kurt Cagle, xml.com, nov 2007)