Mozilla and Microsoft are in the midst of a squabble over the future of JavaScript, with each side accusing the other of actions which could end up 'breaking the Web'. The two companies each have their own respective versions of the common programming language that is used across the web: Mozilla backs ECMAScript, while Microsoft pushes its own JScript.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Mozilla has balls, but they use them to stick with their open web ideas, thankfully.
As for having their own script, they already do 
MSIE doesn’t have JavaScript, it has JScript, which is a slightly corrupt version of ECMAScript anyhow.
Mozilla, Opera, Adobe (and others) are quite happy with the extensions in ES4, so it’s likely they’ll be going that way anyway, the only one that wants to cause a fuss is Microsoft, naturally 
Member since:2005-07-06
Well, they've got their own user-interface-description language, XUL, which is actually a lot more powerful than JavaScript (it's what all of Firefox's extensions, as well as the Firefox GUI itself, are based on). I think at some point Mozilla was trying to get web developers to use it, but it hasn't seen very wide adoption because it's not cross platform. However, we do have quite a lot of Firefox extensions out there, which in many cases take the place of similar AJAX-based web applications. So in a way, Mozilla has already been pretty successful in spreading their own language.
Edited 2007-11-04 16:44
Member since:2005-07-18
Well, they've got their own user-interface-description language, XUL, which is actually a lot more powerful than JavaScript
"re..." and "RE[2]: re: ...": you're both about as clueful as a deaf bat. First, Brendan Eich *created* Javascript as a Netscape (and later Mozilla) developer. Ergo it IS Mozilla's 'script'. And secondly, XUL is a markup language, not a scripting language. Anyone doing XUL apps (as I do) still uses Javascript to make things happen.
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2006-12-06
if Mozilla had any balls, they'd make their own script which MSIE doesn't have.