Ecmascript?

[Fire Dragon]

What is ecmascript?I borrowed JS book,and there reads some places little about it,but what it is,and is it popular or good?I want know...

[pulpfiction]

Hi, This is what WIKIPEDIA says

In December 1995 Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corporation introduced [1] JavaScript. In March 1996 Netscape Communications Corporation released Netscape Navigator 2.0, which featured support for JavaScript. Due to the de facto success of JavaScript as a client-side scripting language for web pages, Microsoft developed a "roughly" compatible language known as JScript, which was included in Internet Explorer 3.0, released in August 1996.Netscape submitted the JavaScript specification to Ecma International for standardization; the work on the specification, ECMA-262, began in November 1996. The first edition of ECMA-262 was adopted by the ECMA General Assembly of June 1997.ECMAScript is the name of the scripting language standardized in ECMA-262. Both JavaScript and JScript technologies aim to be compatible with ECMAScript, while providing additional features not described in the ECMA specification

Check out the site belowhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript

[~Shinta]

Isn't ECMAScript the same as Javascript only Standardized by ECMA?

[SmokingMan]

While all of this jockeying for JavaScript versions was happening, Netscape,Microsoft, and other concerned parties met to establish a core language standard.The standards body is a Switzerland-based organization called the EuropeanComputer Manufacturer’s Association, or ECMA (commonly pronounced ECK-ma).In mid-1997, the first formal language specification was agreed on and published( ECMA-262). Due to licensing issues with the JavaScript name, the body created anew name for the language: ECMAScript.With only minor and esoteric differences, this first version of ECMAScript isessentially the same as JavaScript 1.1 found in Navigator 3. Both Navigator 4 andInternet Explorer 4 support the ECMAScript standard. Moreover, as happens sooften when commerce meets standards bodies, both browsers have gone beyondthe ECMAScript standard. Fortunately, the common denominator of this extendedcore language is broad, lessening authoring headaches on this front.

This is excerpted from The JavaScript Bible v3. Hope this helps.