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: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:55:20 +0200 Lines: 37 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> <3fbf7f5a-858c-4329-be4d-cf9aa6ebe10a@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net iGPPx52bqZ0beVoWjG+WDQFGoizrJMmJeRxtIiEIWmeaD2Tt6J Cancel-Lock: sha1:3VSIK1Nq4iF5m8rsHCpvXlukneA= In-Reply-To: <3fbf7f5a-858c-4329-be4d-cf9aa6ebe10a@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:37267 On 16.09.19 11:38, Julio Di Egidio wrote: > On Sunday, 15 September 2019 23:52:42 UTC+2, Arno Welzel wrote: >> 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. > > NO! It is a plain synonym unless people are specifically talking about ECMAScript is the standard, JavaScript one of its implementations. > versions and manufacturers, in which case you still have JScript or other > stuff, not plain JavaScript: indeed, keep in mind that ES is just the > rebranding of good old JS, not to mention (just as one example!) people like > Crockford who were writing about JS (JavaScript!) even before you were born > (I'd guess, since you too just echo the pervasive contemporary bullshit). JFTR: I was born before the web and browsers even existed and when the Apollo program was still something new. [...] > HTH, Sorry, no. You didn't help. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de