Whats the Difference between JavaScript, JScript, and ECMA Script?
JavaScript first emerged on the scene as a scripting language for the Netscape browser. Later, when you could use JavaScript with Microsoft Internet Explorer, I think they called it JScript (at any rate, Microsoft often calls it JScript now). Because Netscape and Microsoft couldn’t agree on how JavaScript/Jscript should work, it was hard to do anything besides rollover buttons that would work reliably. For the last couple of years, there’s been something called ECMA Script that’s supposed to be an open protocol that will bring everything back together or something. Because all the code in this book was written for Microsoft Active Server Pages, it seems likely that one could argue that the code is JScript. Yet, this book talks mostly about JavaScript, rather than JScript. I’ve been able to find two reasons why: First, I think JavaScript sounds better than JScript; Second, the code that I use in my scripts to declare the language is <%@ Language=JavaScript %>. And this works. Whatever.
