Revisions to javascript tag wiki usage guidance - Software Engineering Stack Exchange

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edit approved Jan 19, 2018 at 15:29

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JavaScript (not to be confused with Java) is the original and common name applied towards most flavors of a scriptinghigh-level, dynamic, multi-paradigm, weakly-typed language that originated on NetScape Navigatorused for both client-side and server-side scripting. Use Use this tag for questions regarding common implementations of ECMAScript, JavaScript, JScript, etc. JS does not typically refer to its ECMA-cousin, ActionScript.

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edit approved Dec 10, 2011 at 3:05

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JavaScript is the original and common name applied towards most flavors of a scripting language that originated on NetScape Navigator. Its primary function has been to interact with the client-side of the web. It is standardized according to a spec known as ECMAScript and is evolving rapidly. Use this tag for questions regarding common implementations of ECMAScript, JavaScript, JScript, etc. JS does not typically refer to its ECMA-cousin, ActionScript.

This actually just started with me disliking the arguable notion that JavaScript is a dialect of ECMAScript which is really more of a spec or manual on how JS interpreters should execute core JavaScript functionality.

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edit approved Aug 12, 2011 at 4:42

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JavaScript is the original and common name applied towards most flavors of a dialectscripting language that originated on NetScape Navigator. Its primary function has been to interact with the client-side of the web. It is standardized according to a spec known as ECMAScript and is evolving rapidly. Use this tag for questions regarding common implementations of ECMAScript, JavaScript, JScript, etc. JS does not typically refer to its ECMA-cousin, ActionScript.