IE8, JScript, and JavaScript   

As we all know, IE has always used JScript instead of JavaScript in the 
past. One of the things that I have always had to make the most differences 
for between pages designed for IE and other browsers is the scripts. 
However, with the main goal of IE8 being to make everything more standards 
compliant, I was wondering the following:

Will IE8 be using JScript, JavaScript, or will they make it dependent upon 
the type attribute of the script tag (or being specified somewhere else in 
the file)?

If I were to make this decision, I would do something similar to what they 
are doing with the rendering engine, such as the following:

Use standard JavaScript as the default, but give the option of using JScript 
if a predetermined <meta> tag is included.
-- 
Nathan Sokalski
njsokalski@hotmail.com
http://www.nathansokalski.com/

date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:12:10 -0400   author:   Nathan Sokalski

Re: IE8, JScript, and JavaScript   

JScript is the name of Microsoft's *implementation* of ECMAScript 3 
(which is the standard refered to, here).  It's not another language, 
and it's supposed to conform to ECMAScript 3, so it would be more 
effective to report the precise deviations that are a problem to you 
than a blanket "your implementation in no good, change it".

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On 2008-03-14, Nathan Sokalski  wrote:
> As we all know, IE has always used JScript instead of JavaScript in the 
> past. One of the things that I have always had to make the most differences 
> for between pages designed for IE and other browsers is the scripts. 
> However, with the main goal of IE8 being to make everything more standards 
> compliant, I was wondering the following:
>
> Will IE8 be using JScript, JavaScript, or will they make it dependent upon 
> the type attribute of the script tag (or being specified somewhere else in 
> the file)?
>
> If I were to make this decision, I would do something similar to what they 
> are doing with the rendering engine, such as the following:
>
> Use standard JavaScript as the default, but give the option of using JScript 
> if a predetermined <meta> tag is included.

date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:11:36 -0700   author:   Lionel Fourquaux lid