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Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by floydnoel on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:28PM (#42941533)
I'm glad this is being fought, Oracle is a demon.

> The major implementations of JavaScript are in the browsers built by Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Microsoft

Isn't MS's browser just Chromium? Weird to add them to the list when they don't build a browser any more. Why not add Brave, etc?

Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by t0ps0il on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:09PM (#42942008)
> Weird to add them to the list when they don't build a browser any more

It seems like their browser engine is still being supported for use in "Universal Windows Platform" apps, or at least that's what Wikipedia says.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML

Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by floydnoel on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:49PM (#42943498)
sure ok, you can still use it in UWP webviews (but you can also use the chromium version). but that seems like a really insignificant application compared to the rest of the browsers being listed.
Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by not_a_bot_4sho on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @12:02AM (#42944021)
> Isn't MS's browser just Chromium?

No. It's based on Chromium. It has quite a bit on functionally that's not available on Chrome or Chromium.

Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by floydnoel on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:38AM (#42947116)
for the purposes of this discussion, irrelevant. we are talking about JS implementations. extra bookmarking features or copilot slop isn't a factor.
Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by stevefan1999 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:53AM (#42945835)
Well, at least I can still install ublock origin on Edge, but I can't do that on Vanilla Chromium (yep, that manifest v3 thing is enabled by default for Chromium in Google's flavor)
Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:11AM (#42945967)
Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by JavierFlores09 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:10AM (#42949514)
it only seems right to mention them, after all they did have the most used JS implementation back in the day, even if it is barely used nowadays.
Re:Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–no... by seanclayton on Monday February 10, 2025 @10:45AM (#43001586)
MS implements JS with its typescript compiler