2008/10/28 Brett Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am sorry, but I must ask. Are you saying that the term JavaScript is owned > by Sun? Or just the Java part? And, yes, JavaScript is implemented in > Internet Explorer.
Yes, it's a registred trademark of Sun, licenced to Netscape once upon a time as part of a marketing deal including bundling the Java runtime with Navigator. (Netscape had originally intended to use the name LiveScript.) And it would be more correct to say Microsoft implements ECMAScript than to say they implement JavaScript. They do not implement most of the Netscape/Mozilla JavaScript additions to ECMAScript. The name JavaScript is very seldom used by Microsoft. If you read Microsoft employee blogs and official statements, you almost never encounter that term. They prefer to either use their own JScript name or the ECMAScript name. -- David "liorean" Andersson ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
