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Patricia Shanahan wrote:

> On 12/8/2012 8:04 AM, John G Harris wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 at 23:22:52, in comp.lang.javascript, Cezary Tomczyk
>> wrote:
>>
>>    <snip>
>>> Personally I think that we should use one name everywhere - I like
>>> "JavaScript".
>>    <snip>
>>
>> If you use 'JavaScript' you have a problem. You would be able to say
>> 'JScript' for Microsoft's product and 'ActionScript' for Adobe's
>> product, but you would have to say 'Mozilla's JavaScript, I mean the one
>> in Firefox' for the Mozilla/Firefox product.
> 
> Even if we used "JScript" it would have to be qualified in many cases to
> distinguish the capabilities of different versions of IE.

Correct.  There are different JScript versions as there are versions of 
IE/MSHTML, WSH and ASP (.NET) to support them. [1]  The reader should become 
acquainted with that fact, or they will never be able to write scripts that 
work in different versions of IE/MSHTML, WSH or ASP (.NET).

A problem occurs with JScript 9.0 and 9.1, though, because Microsoft in 
their infinite wisdom[tm] have decided for the new version of the MSDN 
Library to document that language version misleadingly as “Microsoft 
implementation of JavaScript”, while it is nowhere near the capabilities of 
(Mozilla) JavaScript [2].  Also, ScriptEngine() still correctly returns 
"JScript" [3], completing the confusion to beginners.


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[1] <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hbxc2t98(VS.85).aspx>
[2] <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d1et7k7c(VS.94).aspx>
[3] <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/efy5bay1(VS.94).aspx>
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