MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update

jfruhlinger writes "JavaScript has become a crucial part of Websites built on AJAX underpinnings, which makes the upcoming revision to the ECMAScript standard crucial for the future of the Web. But in today's browser environment, no one vendor can impose an update path — which may set things up for a nasty conflict. A fight is being fought on blogs between Mozilla Chief Technology Officer (and creator of JavaScript) Brendan Eich, who wants to the new ECMAScript standard to be a radical upgrade, and Chris Wilson, architect of MS's IE team, who would rather keep JavaScript as is and put new functionality into a brand-new language."

Comments

Re:Opera is the Ron Paul of browsers

[Anonymous Coward]

There's no need to pull Ron Paul's abysmal ability to properly render real world websites into the discussion.

Re:Either way...

[morgan_greywolf]

Actually, I wrote a function for an application I'm developing (in Python) that fixes that problem to some degree with XML files. Example:


<script type="text/python">
          from template import *
          who='Slashdot'
          if not (who == ""):
                  s=Template('Hello, $n!').substitute(n=who)
          else:
                  print "I'm confused!"
          print s
</script>

will cause problems, since XML parsers tend to include all the whitespace and newlines and so forth. My function simply converts the tabs to spaces and then unindents everything deleting the number of leading spaces of the first line, which will never be indented in a valid Python script, from all the lines of the script.

Probably not something that hasn't been done before, but I did come up with it all by myself. :)

Re:About Silverlight?

[Aewyn]

// TODO: Add 898 lines
function addOneWeek(startDate) {
    var oneWeekInMilliseconds = 1000*60*60*24*7;
    return new Date(startDate.getTime() + oneWeekInMilliseconds);
}