- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:48:55 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> few people use it. How many pages have you looked at that the designer used > ECMAScript? Almost every commercial web page uses ECMAScript. ECMAScript is essentially an attempt to produce a tight specification of those parts of Netscape Javascript that are general programming language features, i.e. excluding everything to do with the document object model and everything to do with browser automation. You need the object models in order to do anything useful in a browser. This makes me think that you don't actually understand the concepts of scripting languages and object models in relation to HTML and web browsers. > To allow people to create or structure their own languages by a Scripting > DTD, would give Meta syntaxes for programming languages are almost as old as programming languages, e.g. Backus Naur Form.
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