{"id":82863,"date":"2009-12-15T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/New-Version-of-ECMAScript-Gets-Approved-129785.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-15T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:36:00","slug":"new-version-of-ecmascript-gets-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/82863","title":{"rendered":"New Version of ECMAScript Gets Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/New-Version-of-ECMAScript-Gets-Approved-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>Nine years after its previously launched version, ECMA International has announced the release of ECMAScript 5, which was approved as a web standard by the ECMA International&#8217;s General Assembly at the start of December. This will bring many new features to ECMA-based languages like JScript (Microsoft) and JavaScript (Netscape).<\/p>\n<p>The new version was approved in ECMA&#8217;s International General Assembly held on December 3 at Google&#8217;s headquarters. 21 out of the 22 members were present, 19 of them voting yes, with two voting no. IBM and Intel voted against adopting this version as a general standard because of various reasons (for IBM, the lack of decimal, while Intel didn&#8217;t have enough time to study the intellectual property implications of the standard). <\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly is formed of 22 voting members, mainly companies that have interest and experience in matters related to one or more of ECMA International&#8217;s regulated domains of activity: Google, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Konica Minolta, Intel, IBM, Adobe, Yahoo, Xerox, Toshiba, Lexmark, Hitachi, Philips, Sony, Samsung, Pioneer, NVIDIA, AMD, Canon, Fujitsu, Avaya and Ericsson. Other non-voting members of ECMA include Mozilla, Opera, Apple, Novell and many more. The General Assembly also agreed that the standard be submitted to ISO for approval as a general inter&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/New-Version-of-ECMAScript-Gets-Approved-129785.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years after its previously launched version, ECMA International has announced the release of ECMAScript 5, which was approved as a web standard by the ECMA International&#8217;s General Assembly at the start of December. This will bring many new features to ECMA-based languages like JScript (Microsoft) and JavaScript (Netscape). The new version was approved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}