Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 3 March 99

Foil 11 ECMAScript

From Overview of JavaScript I -- Basic Web Scripting Language CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox (Tom Scavo)
JavaScript Standards for Foil 11
1 ECMAScript refers to standard ECMA-262 released in June 1997
2 ECMAScript is essentially JavaScript with all client and server-side features removed i.e. It is the language and not the browser AWT handler
3 The emerging HTML and XML Document Object Models (DOMs) will be bound initially to ECMAScript
4 So one can use ECMAScript in several different domains (HTML XML VRML ...) by adding support for appropriate domain specific objects
5 Netscape Site has ECMAScript standard document
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