In message <1290652250....@jim.nagel.ukonline.co.uk> you wrote: > Dave Lawton wrote on 23 Jan: > > Javascript=Netscape (now EMCAScript) 'write once, modify for every browser > > under the sun' scripting language. > > good ol' Fresco had Ecmascript, didn't it? > i used to think it was some generic-type version of Javascript, but > you're saying that the name has changed and it's the same?
I think Dave Lawton was pointing out that Fresco's claim to implement Javascript was somewhat economical with the truth, and that it was not alone among browsers in this respect. If you Google "ECMAScript" you will see that it was an attempt to provide a standard, to mitigate the usual boring browser-war confusion where everybody interpreted the terms "JavaScript", "JScript" etc to mean whatever they had happened to have implemented on their own browser. > (of course Fresco is 9 years old: in fact, in checking the datestamp > just now, i see its 9th birthday is next wednesday. and its info > panel says "SSL: full. Javascript: yes".) This statement invites the question "What do you mean by Javascript?". I could find no answer to this either from the Fresco documentation or from requests for information from ANT. In stark contrast to this, the NetSurf team are to be congratulated for making plain the standards towards which they are working and their progress in achieving them. This is where OSS culture scores over commercial; there is no incentive to hide sloppiness about specification. -- Gavin Wraith (ga...@wra1th.plus.com) Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/
