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chapter 5 standardization ecmascript 68 captures 23 mar 2014 11 dec 2024 aug sep oct 12 2021 2022 2023 success fail about this capture timestamps the wayback machine http web archive org web 20220912183406 http speakingjs com es5 ch05 html chapter 5 standardization ecmascript table of contents buy the book ad please don t block chapter 5 standardization ecmascript after javascript came out microsoft implemented the same language under the different name jscript in internet explorer 3 0 august 1996 partially to keep microsoft in check netscape decided to standardize javascript and asked the standards organization ecma international to host the standard work on a specification called ecma 262 started in november 1996 because sun now oracle had a trademark on the term javascript it couldn t be the official name of the language to be standardized hence ecmascript was chosen derived from javascript and ecma however that name is used only to refer to versions of the language where one refers to the specification everyone still calls the language javascript ecma 262 is managed and evolved by ecma s technical committee 39 tc39 its members are companies such as microsoft mozilla and google which appoint employees to participate in committee work examples include brendan eich allen wirfs brock editor of ecma 262 and david herman to advance the design of ecmascript tc39 hosts discussions on open channels such as the mailing list es discuss and holds regular meetings the meetings are attended by tc39 members and invited experts in early 2013 attendee numbers ranged from 15 to 25 the following is a list of ecmascript versions or editions of ecma 262 and their key features ecmascript 1 june 1997 first edition ecmascript 2 august 1998 editorial changes to align ecma 262 with the standard iso iec 16262 ecmascript 3 december 1999 do while regular expressions new string methods concat match replace slice split with a regular expression etc exception handling and more ecmascript 4 abandoned july 2008 ecmascript 4 was developed as the next version of javascript with a prototype written in ml however tc39 could not agree on its feature set to prevent an impasse the committee met at the end of july 2008 and came to an accord summarized in four points develop an incremental update of ecmascript 3 which became ecmascript 5 develop a major new version that does less than ecmascript 4 but much more than the incremental update of ecmascript 3 the code name for the new version is harmony due to the nature of the meeting in which it was conceived harmony will be split into ecmascript 6 and ecmascript 7 features from ecmascript 4 that would be dropped included packages namespaces and early binding other ideas were to be developed in consensus with all of tc39 thus the ecmascript 4 developers agreed to make harmony less radical than ecmascript 4 and the rest of tc39 agreed to keep moving things forward ecmascript 5 december 2009 adds a strict mode getters and setters new array methods support for json and more see chapter 25 ecmascript 5 1 june 2011 editorial changes to align ecma 262 with the third edition of the international standard iso iec 16262 2011 ecmascript 6 currently in development it is estimated to be ratified by the end of 2014 most engines will probably support the most important ecmascript 6 features at ratification complete support may take longer reaching consensus and creating a standard is not always easy but thanks to the collaborative efforts of the aforementioned parties javascript is a truly open language with implementations by multiple vendors that are remarkably compatible that compatibility is made possible by a very detailed yet concrete specification for example the specification often uses pseudocode and it is complemented by a test suite test262 that checks an ecmascript implementation for compliance it is interesting to note that ecmascript is not managed by the world wide web consortium w3c tc39 and the w3c collaborate wherever there is overlap between javascript and html5 next 6 historical javascript milestones