JScript
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JScript is Microsoft's Active Scripting implementation of ECMAScript. JScript was first supported in Internet Explorer browser 3.0 released in August 1996. As with any other Active Scripting engine, it is available through Internet Explorer, Windows Script Host, and Active Server Pages. The typical file extension of JScript source code files is .js.
The most recent version of JScript is JScript .NET, which is based on the yet-unfinished version 4 of the ECMAScript standard, and can be compiled for the Microsoft .NET platform. JScript adds several new features to ECMAScript, such as optional static type annotations.
In addition to other internal implementation differences, JScript uses non-generational mark-and-sweep garbage collection[1] whereas JavaScript (the original implementation of which is the SpiderMonkey engine) uses a generational mark-and-sweep system.
[edit] Versions
| Version | Date | Introduced with | Approx. JavaScript |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Aug 1996 | IE 3.0 | 1.0 |
| 2.0 | Jan 1997 | IIS 3.0 | 1.1 |
| 3.0 | Oct 1997 | IE 4.0 | 1.3 |
| 4.0 | VS 6.0 | ||
| 5.0 | Mar 1999 | IE 5.0 | 1.5 |
| 5.1 | IE 5.01 | 1.5 | |
| 5.5 | Jul 2000 | IE 5.5 | 1.5 |
| 5.6 | Oct 2001 | IE 6.0 | 1.5 |
| .NET | 2000-7-11 | Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 | ? |
| 8.0 | ? | ? | ? |
(Source: MSDN, WebmasterWorld Forum)
[edit] See also
- Hello World program in JScript
- JavaScript, the first ECMAScript implementation which also helped to evolve the ECMAScript standard
- ECMAScript, the ECMA language definition standard which all implementations must at a minimum follow
