Editorial: Refer to ECMA-262 as JavaScript rather than ECMAScript

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Editorial: Refer to ECMA-262 as JavaScript rather than ECMAScript #1379

Closed jeremyroman closed 10 months ago

jeremyroman commented 11 months ago

This is consistent with how the HTML Living Standard, also a a WHATWG work product, refers to it and is how most developers would be familiar with it.

Included in this change:

a note about this convention
renaming various algorithms and sections (and adding aliases for pre-existing IDs)
renaming variables and other things which refer to ECMAScript in an abbreviation

Fixes #863.

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jeremyroman commented 11 months ago

@annevk @domenic PTAL? I'm hopeful that preserving most of the IDs as old IDs (or replicating the effect of oldids by using the same trick of adding empty spans, for cases where that's not supported by Bikeshed) will minimize the disruption to other specs.

annevk commented 11 months ago

We should add "Fixes #863." to the end of the final commit message. (Seems PR Preview won the race a couple times there.)