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Re:Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework by JetSpiegel on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:06PM (#7423231)
Only theoretically.

Javascript is a way to manipulate the DOM, no matter whan those nutters who run it on servers say.

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Re:Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework by nawitus on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:57PM (#7423684)
Nope, it's the truth. You can have JavaScript without the DOM in a Node.js or a CouchDB environment, for example.
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Re:Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework by hmsimha on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @06:15PM (#7425427)
I would say that what node.js runs is ecmascript with it's own API that differs from the DOM. It's called javascript for convenience, but then what separates javascript from ecmascript?
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Re:Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework by swang on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:07AM (#7426932)
Nothing. It is only different in name. Oracle owns the actual copyright on JavaScript via Sun. ECMAscript was used so the ECMA would not have to worry about this.
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Re:Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework by hmsimha on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @02:39AM (#7427135)
I guess this is a point of contention. Javascript is considered by many to be an implementation of ECMAscript that also provides additional features (the additional features, according to the book I cited, being the DOM and BOM).
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