Scripting Media Types

Braden McDaniel braden at endoframe.com
Wed Feb 9 05:05:52 CET 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 04:08 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

[snip]

> The JavaScript Core Guide 1.5 notes "JavaScript will always include
> features that are not part of the ECMA specification; JavaScript is
> compatible with ECMA, while providing additional features." which is
> also true for JavaScript 1.5; The specification the draft references
> states which features are compatible with ECMA-262 and which aren't.

The "Core JavaScript Reference" isn't a language specification. It's my
understanding that JavaScript has no such thing; it is defined in terms
of a reference implementation, SpiderMonkey. Would it be inappropriate
to list that as a normative reference?

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