(2007-11-01) Javascript New Version War

A group has been moving toward a new JavaScript/Ecma Script v4 spec. Microsoft (and Yahoo?) are fighting it.

Ryan Paul thinks Microsoft wants to keep JavaScript really simple, and count on DotNet as a more advanced engine. And that [the](http://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin:Iron Monkey) Iron Monkey project to support IronPython and Iron Ruby in Tamarin is the answer to bridging these worlds.