Web leaders seek JavaScript harmony
eWeek | at | by Mike
The Ecma International standards body scraps its ECMAScript 4 effort to pursue a project called Harmony that aims to mend fences between warring parties. With Microsoft and Yahoo on one side and Adobe, Mozilla, Google and Opera seemingly on another, Ecma moved to take the middle road. ECMAScript 4 was to become JavaScript 2.The specification that was to lead to a revised JavaScript language has been taken off the table in lieu of a more harmonious approach to reaching standardization for the next version of the language that will take the Web forward.