ECMAScript — What is it and how is it related to JavaScript and other scripting languages
What is ECMAScript?
What does ECMAScript do?
Where does ECMAScript come from?
Why is ECMAScript important to know?
ECMAScript JavaScript are they the same?
What is the difference between ECMAScript and JavaScript?
All these questions answered here…
ECMAScript and JavaScript seems to be quite a confusing topic among Web Developers today. Some say that JavaScript is ECMAScript, or vice versa, ECMAScript is JavaScript, or even that ECMAScript replaced JavaScript, and JavaScript changed to ECMAScript? This article should clear up a lot of this confusion and shed light in clearer terms.
What is ECMAScript? If you look up on web searches you will see various details of what ECMAScript is (but please read on from these to learn more), for example:
- Wikipedia describes ECMAScript as: “ECMAScript (or ES)[1] is a JavaScript standard meant to ensure the interoperability of web pages across different web browsers.[2] It is standardized by Ecma International according to the document ECMA-262. ECMAScript is commonly used for client-side scripting on the World Wide Web,...”
Really? Well that may not be…
