INTRODUCTION TO WEB GRAPHICS AND DESIGN
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ECMA script
n December 1995 Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corporation introduced JavaScript. In March 1996 Netscape Communications Corporation released Netscape Navigator 2.0, which featured support for JavaScript. Due to the de facto success of JavaScript as a web page enhancement language, Microsoft developed a "roughly" compatible language known as JScript, which was included in Internet Explorer 3.0 released in August 1996.
Netscape submitted JavaScript specification to Ecma International for standardization; the work on the specification, ECMA-262, began in November 1996. The first edition of ECMA-262 was adopted by the ECMA General Assembly of June 1997.
ECMAScript is the name of the language standardized in ECMA-262. Both JavaScript and JScript technologies aim to be compatible with ECMAScript, while providing additional features not described in the ECMA specification.