On 26 June 2024, the 127th Ecma General Assembly approved the ECMAScript 2024 language specification (press release,GitHub release), which means that it’s officially a standard now. This blog post explains what’s new. The editors of ECMAScript 2024 What’s new in ECMAScript 2024? Grouping...
ECMAScript is widely used on the World Wide Web especially for client-side scripting. Advertisements Techopedia Explains ECMAScript The European Computer Manufacturers Association developed the official standard for ECMAScript, often known as ECMA-262. The ECMA standard helps in defining the ECMAScript...
Many languages follow and implement the ECMAScript specification, e.g., JavaScript, ActionScript, Nashorn.Ecma international releases standard specifications from time to time. The current edition is the Ecma-262 Edition 5.1. Currently, most browsers offer full support for JavaScript ECMAScript 5.1 edi...
“Looking at what we’ve done over the past year, ECMAScript 2024 is a little similar to ECMAScript 2023 in that it sees smaller features; but meanwhile, we’re building very strongly towards these big features.” Many of those only need “the last finishing touches.” “You need to acc...
The ECMA-262 standard outlines the ECMAScript Language Specification, which is the standardized specification of the scripting language known as JavaScript. There are ten editions of ECMA-262 that have been published (the tenth edition was published in June 2018). ...
JScript is a popular object-based scripting language from Microsoft based on the ECMA standard. JScript is an interpreted language that is executed without a preliminary compilation. Advertisements JScript is also known as classic script or active scripting JScript. Techopedia Explains JScript JScript...
Prototype pollution was introduced when the European Association of Computer Manufacturers (ECMA) published the ECMAScript2015, 6th Edition specification. This specification created a JavaScript standard that ensures compatibility across various web browsers. The specification includes standardization of the __...
In 2002,Sonyand Phillips worked together to co-invent a technology specification and technical outline for NFC. In 2003, the specification was approved as anISO/IEC standard and later as anECMAstandard. One year later, Nokia, Sony, and Phillips established the NFC Forum, a non-profit industry...
A host environment provides the base implementation of ECMAScript and implementation extensions designed to interface with the environment itself. The DOM is an application programming interface for XML that was extended for use in HTML. The DOM had been a standard for some time before web browsers...
Ultra HD Blu-ray (UHD)is the future 4K Blu-ray Disc format. It will support 4K UHD (3840x2160 resolution) video at frame rates up to 60 frames per second. The standard will encode videos under the High Efficiency Video Coding standard(HEVC/H265). 4K Blu-ray Discs will support both ...