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ECMAscript

By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: ECMA is an international standards organization. When they were given responsibility for the Javascript standards the language was officially renamed ECMAscript. ECMAscript itself specifies only the core language, it does not contain anything to reference the browser or the web document being displayed.
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