Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Breakdown a HTML file into sub textblocks. Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:52:35 +0200 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <764385ef-6938-4201-b1d5-6f532bcee1a8@googlegroups.com> <2bad4dd1-a4b4-4c1f-a72d-ed9443942822@googlegroups.com> <835235d6-2087-43da-97a7-481e53c1aafa@googlegroups.com> <88e61332-77cd-4836-8725-dd73a5efa891@googlegroups.com> <87622a64-6c13-4279-9b4c-1b5b1dfce4a4@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net rhxa/hwKnzK1NATYgUkz+QeW2bmoF89VH+6SQXYNe+nPWCkWQF Cancel-Lock: sha1:bnhdumu0tWghuZraeW7WHAF/mIw= In-Reply-To: <87622a64-6c13-4279-9b4c-1b5b1dfce4a4@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:37256 Julio Di Egidio: > On Sunday, 15 September 2019 12:33:56 UTC+2, John G Harris wrote: [...] >> Nor for that matter has anyone ever said what exactly a language must >> do to be named "JavaScript" or "JS". > > Do you often make of your ignorance a universal law? FYI, JS and ECMAScript > are *synonyms*. JavaScript is an *implementation* which conforms to the ECMAScript specification (like JScript or ActionScript) but not a synonym. And yes, the DOM is not part of the ECMAScript specification. But since many people write JavaScript code to be run in a browser, *using* the DOM will be discussed here as well. Where else should this be this on topic when not here? -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de