ECMAScript

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.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript Wikipedia]), retrieved 12:40, 22 May 2007 (MEST)).

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.

= E4X

• Fremantle, Paul and Anthony Elder (1005). AJAX and scripting Web services with E4X, Part 1, IBM Works, HTML

• E4X Tutorial, W3Schools.