The future of scripting in the browser causes some difference of opinion
Mozilla, Microsoft reps argue over the future of web scripting
As a guy who has railed *against* JavaScript for years - for reasons that I still think are somewhat valid (variously implemented, not always guaranteed to even be enabled, security, discipline, testing, etc), but is coming around now, thanks to being enlightened by the reality that techniques like Ajax do matter, and frameworks like Dojo, Prototype, Script.aculo.us and so on - I have to say that I agree with Brendan Eich on this one.
The points Brendan makes, and the roadmap seem pretty clear.
And really, just as I should not have much say in this because of my past JavaScript discretions, frankly, neither should Microsoft - even though the process clearly HAS tried to accommodate anyone interested. I couldn't agree more with sentiments like: "Sorry, but most of those JScript deviations are not candidate de facto standards -- they are just your bugs to fix. They should not stall ES4 for one second," when it comes to MS peeps claiming de-facto crap.
