Please note that Microsoft HAS responded on my blog (with a reply from Brendon and myself)
http://openajax.com/blog/ PLEASE note: Although the domain is OpenAjax.Com, we are NOT part of the Open Ajax Alliance (although I am the contributor or Openajax.Org to Jon Ferraiolo ) I do not have any advertising or spam on my site, so please feel free to visit and comment Ric Johnson On 10/30/2007, "Chris Pine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >zwetan wrote: >> so sorry I don't buy the "ECMAScript must change its name" > >No, of course not. Nevermind that the scope of TG1 is "to standardize >the syntax and semantics of a general purpose, cross platform, >vendor-neutral dynamic scripting language called ECMAScript": > > http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC39-TG1.htm > >I don't think that anyone believes there is honest concern that the name >of the language might confuse people about which language they are >getting. ES3 programs will continue to work. > >The push to change the name is a push to kill the ES4 proposal. It's >that simple. > >First you change the name. Then you admit it's a new language, and thus >a new spec. Incompatibilities with ES3 inevitably follow, in order to >incompatibly fix bugs (something we'd all like to do, but not at the >expense of breaking the web). Browser vendors must then ship two >runtimes to support the new language (impossible on small devices), >while no work is required to truthfully claim "our browser has full >ecmascript support". So small devices don't get it, IE doesn't do it, >and ES4 as proposed dies. > >So I don't buy it either: I don't believe that anyone arguing to change >the name thinks the language would thus succeed. This rose, by any >other name, would not be smelled at all. > >Chris Pine >Opera Software >_______________________________________________ >Es4-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
