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Expand Up @@ -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:[<span data-type="footnote">You can read the original announcement at the <a href="https://mjavascript.com/out/jscript-net">Microsoft website</a> (July, 2000).</span>] and, eventually, to ActionScript 3 for Flash in 2006.pass:[<span data-type="footnote">Listen to Brendan Eich in the JavaScript Jabber podcast, talking about the <a href="https://mjavascript.com/out/brendan-devchat">origin of JavaScript</a>.</span>]
Drafts for an ES4 specification were soon afterwards published by TC39. This early work on ES4 led to JScript​.NET in mid-2000pass:[<span data-type="footnote">. You can read the original announcement at the <a href="https://mjavascript.com/out/jscript-net">Microsoft website</a> (July, 2000).</span>] and, eventually, to ActionScript 3 for Flash in 2006.pass:[<span data-type="footnote">Listen to Brendan Eich in the JavaScript Jabber podcast, talking about the <a href="https://mjavascript.com/out/brendan-devchat">origin of JavaScript</a>.</span>]

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.

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