- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 16:55:34 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> > javascript is not a w3c product This was out of context and doesn't seem to follow from my posting, even though it was copied to me. To a first approximation, W3C has no products except documentation (Amaya, the CERN web server, Jigsaw, being exceptions, but not used in the mass market). The W3C does specify document object models, and those specifications include ECMA Script language bindings, which partially covers what is popularly called JavaScript. The popular definition also covers browser automation features like window.open, and has an extended definition of document.write, both of which are rather prevalent on real pages. They don't define the core language and core objects for ECMA Script, but the existence of the DOM implies some acceptance of it. However, the HTML specifications only provide scripting hooks. They don't require that browsers support scripting or do so with any specific scripting language, or any object model except one compatible with the events defined by HTML.
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