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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The first edition of ECMA-262 was released June 1997. A year later, in June 1998
By December 1999 the third edition was published, standardizing regular expressions, the `switch` statement, `do`/`while`, `try`/`catch`, and `Object#hasOwnProperty`, among a few other changes. Most of these features were already available in the wild through Netscape's JavaScript runtime, ((("SpiderMonkey")))SpiderMonkey.
-Drafts for an ES4 specification were soon afterwards published by TC39. This early work on ES4 led to JScript.NET in mid-2000pass:[You can read the original announcement at the Microsoft website (July, 2000).] and, eventually, to ActionScript 3 for Flash in 2006.pass:[Listen to Brendan Eich in the JavaScript Jabber podcast, talking about the origin of JavaScript.]
+Drafts for an ES4 specification were soon afterwards published by TC39. This early work on ES4 led to JScript.NET in mid-2000pass:[. You can read the original announcement at the Microsoft website (July, 2000).] and, eventually, to ActionScript 3 for Flash in 2006.pass:[Listen to Brendan Eich in the JavaScript Jabber podcast, talking about the origin of JavaScript.]
Conflicting opinions on how JavaScript was to move forward brought work on the specification to a standstill. This was a delicate time for web standards: Microsoft had all but monopolized the web and they had little interest in standards development.