Mozilla and Microsoft are in the midst of a squabble over the future of JavaScript, with each side accusing the other of actions which could end up “breaking the Web.”
The two companies each have their own respective versions of the common programming language that is used across the web: Mozilla backs ECMAScript, while Microsoft pushes its own JScript.
Much of the battle has been between Mozilla Chief Technology Officer Brendan Eich — the creator of JavaScript — and Microsoft Internet Explorer platform architect Chris Wilson. The two have traded barbs through their blogs over the past week.
Wilson started the tiff by suggesting that the next version of ECMAScript, version 4, may be too much of a change to the language itself to continue it as “JavaScript.” Instead, he suggested that a completely new language be developed, because so much of the structure of the language would be changed.
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