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1	ECMAScript Harmony Remember this from 281 days ago? It seems that the two sides have apparently patched up their differences and agreed on a future plan. Brendan Eich: Executive Summary The committee has resolved in favor of these tasks and conclusions: Focus work on ...	Aug 13, 2008 8:34:39 PM
2	If JavaScript Were Such A Great Language ... ... why aren't its extra-web-browser versions being used widely. Here's my observation: If people wanted to, they can use JavaScript for: Windows shell scripting (JScript Windows scripting host) General purpose Windows/.NET programming (JScript.NET) ...	Mar 31, 2008 7:16:27 AM
3	JavaScript To Fragment, The End Of The Reign Of The Browsers This doesn't sound good: Brendan Eich: ... the proposed ECMAScript 4th edition (ES4) grammar is a bit more than twice as big as ES3's ... Pratap Lakshman (Microsoft): "We do not support or agree to the current ES4 proposal, either in whole or in part." ...	Nov 6, 2007 8:19:15 AM
4	Kyle Cordes: Scripting Your Java App This month's St. Louis JUG meeting featured Kyle Cordes talking about scripting Java applications "I attended one of Edward Tufte's classes," started Kyle. I know right away that I won't be able to get the PowerPoint for the talk at the end. Kyle did ...	Nov 10, 2006 12:02:41 AM
5	Friday Quiz: Who Said This? I've been dutifully bringing interesting quotes from all over the internet to my readers in the past three years. Toady, I'm going to turn a quote into a quiz: who said this? (I'll post the link tomorrow.) [JavaScript], unlike Python, was a rushed ...	Oct 13, 2006 9:58:08 AM
6	JavaScript Still Doesn't Get Respect So Google Web Toolkit compiles Java sources into JavaScript. And what do they say in their Legal Notices? Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. What about JavaScript? Isn't it not also a trademark?	May 27, 2006 7:09:51 PM
7	JavaScript To Gain Pythonic Features Brendan Eich: Mark Hammond's work to support Python in XUL is nearly done. The DOM_AGNOSTIC2_BRANCH should land in the next few weeks. Already I see many on the PyXPCOM list testing Mark's fine work, chomping at the bit to use Python in XULRunner. This ...	Feb 19, 2006 7:33:55 PM
8	Tuesday Quiz Without using Google or the internet or referring to any books or magazines, answer the following questions: Is JavaScript a registered trademark(™)? If yes, who is the owner? Are you sure?	Dec 13, 2005 8:25:47 PM
9	Native XML Comes To Firefox 1.5's JavaScript I first blogged about E4X 425 days ago. At the time it was only available in Rhino. I'm happy to note that E4X support is part of JavaScript 1.6, which is delivered with Firefox 1.5. As a simple illustration, the following line (in a red box, which you ...	Dec 4, 2005 11:06:28 PM