Newly revised Section 10 for ES3.1.

Brendan Eich brendan at mozilla.org
Thu Jul 10 00:14:11 PDT 2008


On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:09 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:02 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
>> I do not believe that ECMA has the "two interoperable  
>> implementations"
>> rule that the IETF and W3C have, but since ECMAScript is a  
>> standard of
>> equal important to the Web, I think we should adopt this rule for any
>> future edition of ECMAScript.
>
> Agreed -- I've been saying this, and I'm trying to line up at four
> non-reference ES4 implementation efforts.

At *least* four:

SpiderMonkey
Rhino
ESC+Tamarin
MbedThis

Opera is a hoped-for fifth. But this is in the future, along with  
draft specs sufficient to prototype, and tests added to today's ES3- 
ish suites (which seem to have common ancestry in Mozilla's js/tests).

/be



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