New EcmaScript/Javascript specification

A new candidate specification for EcmaScript (formerly "3.1," now "Fifth edition") has been completed.

See http://www.ecma-international.org/news/PressReleases/PR_Ecma_finalises_major_revision_of_ECMAScript.htm

or

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/drafts/tc39-2009-025.pdf for the draft spec itself.

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Some back story...

A significant number of the changes in ECMAScript 3.1 were driven by capability-oriented ideas that came out of the work on Caja. I will try to encourage Mark Miller to comment on this.