One drawback of living on the cutting edge is it can be lonely. Web developers realized this long ago with different browsers supporting different aspects of web standards, which have led to so many ...

The TC39 committee at EMCA International, responsible for developing the ECMAScript specification that provides the basis for JavaScript, is working on parallel versions of ECMAScript — versions 6 and ...

ECMAScript 5 was finalized this week, and it’s surely cause for celebration. The ECMAScript specification is the root of both JavaScript and Adobe Flash’s ActionScript language, making it one of the ...

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When Opera's current ECMAScript engine, called Futhark, was first released in a public version, it was the fastest engine on the market. That engine was developed to minimize code footprint and memory ...

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Like php.<BR>Man I love PHP's online html documentation with notes.<BR>It's a great resource.<BR><BR>Does anyone know of such good documentation for javascript?<BR><BR>If not, I'll just have to start ...

An up-and-coming lightweight data interchange format for Web applications, considered by a growing number of people to be an alternative to XML, has gotten a boost from the standards body Ecma. The ...