JavaScript Versions

Once upon a time (in 1996), there was a Netscape Navigator version 2.0. Although destined to become a piece of Web history, it was in fact the first to support JavaScript.

The rapid acceptance of JavaScript forced Microsoft to come up with a comparable solution of their own. A few months later the Redmond-based company released JScript, which offered roughly equivalent support. However, equivalent and compatible are not necessarily the same thing on the Web.

This was definitely bad news for all self-respecting webmasters. After all, if you're a site creator you want to make your site available for everyone. In order to arrive at a consensus, ECMA, a Swiss organisation for standardisation, brought out ECMAScript in 1997.

Without going into details, suffice it to say that the two camps must now conform to this model when developing new features for their respective languages: JavaScript 1.3 in the case of Netscape, and JScript 5.0 for Microsoft.

Where do we stand on this one? We will always make sure you are provided a compatible code. That's a promise!