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Re: n00b considering Java Script

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> <http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/31/11189033/1118903331-15.pdf>
> Page 3:
>
> | JavaScript and the Web
> |
> | […]
> | The organization that sets the standards for web pages is the World Wide
> | Web Consortium (W3C). It not only sets standards for HTML and CSS, but
> | also for how JavaScript interacts with web pages inside a web browser.
>
> Utter nonsense.  The W3C specifies the Document Object Model (DOM), a
> standard of *language-independent* interfaces for interacting with documents
> written in markup languages like HTML, which are the primary focus of the
> W3C.  ECMAScript implementations like JavaScript, among other programming
> languages, can then be used to access implementations of those interfaces
> and interact with DOM objects.

As you like to put it: *wrong!*.

In addition to the DOM itself, the W3 also specifies how the DOM 
interfaces are to be implemented in ECMAScript: 
<https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/ecma-script-binding.html>

Of course, the cited section still seems to be dated, as the standards 
are set by the WHATWG nowadays, not the W3. The HTML(5) spec 
<https://html.spec.whatwg.org> is much more tightly integrated with 
JavaScript, being the lingua franca of the web there is not much concern 
for interoperability with other languages.

| Some parts of the language described by this specification only
| support JavaScript as the underlying scripting language. [JAVASCRIPT]
|
| Note: The term "JavaScript" is used to refer to ECMA-262, rather than
| the official term ECMAScript, since the term JavaScript is more
| widely known. Similarly, the MIME type used to refer to JavaScript in
| this specification is text/javascript, since that is the most
| commonly used type, despite it being an officially obsoleted type
| according to RFC 4329. [RFC4329]

- Bergi

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n00b considering Java Script Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-25 14:09 +0000
  Re: n00b considering Java Script WaltS <thalionusa@REMOVEaim.com> - 2016-09-25 11:22 -0400
    Re: n00b considering Java Script Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-25 16:12 +0000
      Re: n00b considering Java Script WaltS <thalionusa@REMOVEaim.com> - 2016-09-25 12:33 -0400
    Re: n00b considering Java Script Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-09-25 18:23 +0200
      Re: n00b considering Java Script WaltS <thalionusa@REMOVEaim.com> - 2016-09-25 12:32 -0400
        Re: n00b considering Java Script Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-09-25 19:36 +0100
          Re: n00b considering Java Script WaltS <thalionusa@REMOVEaim.com> - 2016-09-25 16:25 -0400
        Re: n00b considering Java Script Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-09-25 21:23 +0200
          Re: n00b considering Java Script John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-09-26 10:28 +0100
      Re: n00b considering Java Script John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-09-26 10:22 +0100
      Re: n00b considering Java Script Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2016-09-26 23:10 +0200
        Re: n00b considering Java Script Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-09-27 06:27 +0200
          Re: n00b considering Java Script Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-09-27 06:43 +0200
  Re: n00b considering Java Script Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2016-09-25 23:57 +0200
  Re: n00b considering Java Script Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2016-09-25 22:47 +0000
    Re: n00b considering Java Script Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-26 01:00 +0000
    Re: n00b considering Java Script Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2016-09-26 23:22 +0200
      Re: n00b considering Java Script Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-09-27 08:18 +0200
        Re: n00b considering Java Script John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-09-27 19:12 +0100
      Re: n00b considering Java Script Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2016-09-30 03:14 +0000

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