Oracle urged again to surrender JavaScript trademark

Oracle urged again to surrender JavaScript trademark

JavaScript luminaries and at least 2,500 other interested parties have again asked Oracle to set the programming language free by walking away from the trademark for its name. Oracle controls the JavaScript trademark because in 2009 it acquired… Article Source https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/17/oracle_urged_to_surrender_javascript_trademark/

JavaScript community challenges Oracle’s JavaScript trademark

JavaScript community challenges Oracle’s JavaScript trademark

In an open letter published September 16, Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and several other leading members of the JavaScript community have accused Oracle of abandoning the JavaScript trademark and urge… Article Source https://www.infoworld.com/article/3532457/javascript-community-challenges-oracles-javascript-trademark.html

Google Advises Against Using JavaScript for Structured Data in Merchant Center

Google Advises Against Using JavaScript for Structured Data in Merchant Center

The Google Merchant Center structured data documentation explains that structured data must be added to the HTML source and not generated after a page has loaded using JavaScript, although Google can still process structured data generated with JavaScript. Jarno van Driel posted about this on LinkedIn, questioning the discrepancy between Google Search Central and Google … Read more

Microsoft Discontinues VBScript in Favor of JavaScript and PowerShell

Microsoft Discontinues VBScript in Favor of JavaScript and PowerShell

Microsoft has announced its plans to phase out Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024, replacing it with more advanced alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. This decision comes after the tech giant initially announced its deprecation plan in October 2023. VBScript was first introduced by Microsoft in 1996 as a scripting language … Read more