From 481cdabc15983a376e3e952d173cf6bc964aba9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Gibson Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:15:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Editorial: Reword introductory prose --- spec.html | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/spec.html b/spec.html index 2ee21d859d..6e57f9833c 100644 --- a/spec.html +++ b/spec.html @@ -195,8 +195,7 @@

Contributing to this Specification

Introduction

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This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2026 Language. It is the seventeenth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. Since publication of the first edition in 1997, ECMAScript has grown to be one of the world's most widely used general-purpose programming languages. It is best known as the language embedded in web browsers but has also been widely adopted for server and embedded applications.

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ECMAScript is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company's Navigator 2.0 browser. It has appeared in all subsequent browsers from Netscape and in all browsers from Microsoft starting with Internet Explorer 3.0.

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This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2026 Language. It is the seventeenth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. ECMAScript is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company's Navigator 2.0 browser. It has appeared in all subsequent browsers from Netscape and in all browsers from Microsoft starting with Internet Explorer 3.0. Though best known as the language embedded in web browsers, it has also been widely adopted for server and embedded applications, and has grown to be one of the world's most widely used general-purpose programming languages.

The development of the ECMAScript Language Specification started in November 1996. The first edition of this Ecma Standard was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly of June 1997.

That Ecma Standard was submitted to ISO/IEC JTC 1 for adoption under the fast-track procedure, and approved as international standard ISO/IEC 16262, in April 1998. The Ecma General Assembly of June 1998 approved the second edition of ECMA-262 to keep it fully aligned with ISO/IEC 16262. Changes between the first and the second edition are editorial in nature.

The third edition of the Standard introduced powerful regular expressions, better string handling, new control statements, try/catch exception handling, tighter definition of errors, formatting for numeric output and minor changes in anticipation of future language growth. The third edition of the ECMAScript standard was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly of December 1999 and published as ISO/IEC 16262:2002 in June 2002.

From c474a84c223b63f1af76a3bf9bf960ed9ed2711c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Gibson Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:59:33 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fixup! Editorial: Reword introductory prose --- spec.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/spec.html b/spec.html index 6e57f9833c..a43c29014c 100644 --- a/spec.html +++ b/spec.html @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@

Contributing to this Specification

Introduction

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This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2026 Language. It is the seventeenth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. ECMAScript is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company's Navigator 2.0 browser. It has appeared in all subsequent browsers from Netscape and in all browsers from Microsoft starting with Internet Explorer 3.0. Though best known as the language embedded in web browsers, it has also been widely adopted for server and embedded applications, and has grown to be one of the world's most widely used general-purpose programming languages.

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This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2026 Language. It is the seventeenth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. ECMAScript is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company's Navigator 2.0 browser. It has appeared in all subsequent browsers from Netscape and in all browsers from Microsoft starting with Internet Explorer 3.0. Though best known as the language embedded in web browsers, it has also been widely adopted for use outside the browser, including server and embedded applications, and has grown to be one of the world's most widely used general-purpose programming languages.

The development of the ECMAScript Language Specification started in November 1996. The first edition of this Ecma Standard was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly of June 1997.

That Ecma Standard was submitted to ISO/IEC JTC 1 for adoption under the fast-track procedure, and approved as international standard ISO/IEC 16262, in April 1998. The Ecma General Assembly of June 1998 approved the second edition of ECMA-262 to keep it fully aligned with ISO/IEC 16262. Changes between the first and the second edition are editorial in nature.

The third edition of the Standard introduced powerful regular expressions, better string handling, new control statements, try/catch exception handling, tighter definition of errors, formatting for numeric output and minor changes in anticipation of future language growth. The third edition of the ECMAScript standard was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly of December 1999 and published as ISO/IEC 16262:2002 in June 2002.

From 1fc4456171123e67a1dcd01c94f99c7536da0733 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Gibson Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:45 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Editorial: Remove irrelevant sentence --- spec.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/spec.html b/spec.html index a43c29014c..8c0aa3ea85 100644 --- a/spec.html +++ b/spec.html @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@

Contributing to this Specification

Introduction

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This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2026 Language. It is the seventeenth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. ECMAScript is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company's Navigator 2.0 browser. It has appeared in all subsequent browsers from Netscape and in all browsers from Microsoft starting with Internet Explorer 3.0. Though best known as the language embedded in web browsers, it has also been widely adopted for use outside the browser, including server and embedded applications, and has grown to be one of the world's most widely used general-purpose programming languages.

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This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2026 Language. It is the seventeenth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. ECMAScript is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company's Navigator 2.0 browser. Though best known as the language embedded in web browsers, it has also been widely adopted for use outside the browser, including server and embedded applications, and has grown to be one of the world's most widely used general-purpose programming languages.

The development of the ECMAScript Language Specification started in November 1996. The first edition of this Ecma Standard was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly of June 1997.

That Ecma Standard was submitted to ISO/IEC JTC 1 for adoption under the fast-track procedure, and approved as international standard ISO/IEC 16262, in April 1998. The Ecma General Assembly of June 1998 approved the second edition of ECMA-262 to keep it fully aligned with ISO/IEC 16262. Changes between the first and the second edition are editorial in nature.

The third edition of the Standard introduced powerful regular expressions, better string handling, new control statements, try/catch exception handling, tighter definition of errors, formatting for numeric output and minor changes in anticipation of future language growth. The third edition of the ECMAScript standard was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly of December 1999 and published as ISO/IEC 16262:2002 in June 2002.