Microsoft has been very concerned with Web standards in the time that has elapsed since the company began to talk and show it to be Internet Explorer 9 This has come as a surprise to most, and many are probably still skeptical about how deep this runs away.
Now it takes Microsoft called for to make the situation even better for Web developers. In a blog post writes Shanku Niyogi, general manager of Microsoft's Java Script group, that while the W3C offers comprehensive test collections that can be used by browser vendors to ensure consistent and uniform implementation of Web standards in the various browsers, there is no equivalent for Javascript.
JavaScript, which is based on ECMA standard ECMAScript (ECMA-262), precisely specified by ECMA. According to Niyogi, Microsoft has taken an initiative to have made an official test session for ECMAScript sponsored by ECMA. This work is Microsoft doing with other browser vendors and other members of the committee responsible for the ECMAScript specification, ECMA Technical Committee 39 (TC-39).
- In the absence of such a collection, the browser vendors and others tried to close the gap by publishing their own tests. Although these tests are useful, they also incompatible devices, printer Niyogi.
Microsoft plans to build a common test collection for ECMAScript and help with testing it.
- We would also welcome contributions from other browser vendors to this work, writes Niyogi.
