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Hiveminds | Sat, 2008-08-16 08:05  tags: , ,

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. It was the originating dialect of the ECMAScript standard. It is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions.

Versions

Version Release date Equivalent to Netscape
Navigator
Mozilla
Firefox
Internet
Explorer
Opera Safari
1.0 March 1996 2.0 3.0
1.1 August 1996 3.0
1.2 June 1997 4.0-4.05
1.3 October 1998 ECMA-262 1st edition / ECMA-262 2nd edition 4.06-4.7x 4.0
1.4 Netscape
Server
1.5 November 2000 ECMA-262 3rd edition 6.0 1.0 5.5 (JScript 5.5),
6 (JScript 5.6),
7 (JScript 5.7),
8 (JScript 6)
1.6 November 2005 1.5 + Array extras + Array and String generics + E4X 1.5
1.7 October 2006 1.6 + Pythonic generators + Iterators + let 2.0 3.x
1.8 June 2008 1.7 + Generator expressions + Expression closures 3.0
1.9 1.8 + New Features 3.1

The next major version of JavaScript, 2.0, will conform to ECMA-262 4th edition.[35]

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