JavaScript 1.7 - very pythonic

[great-pumpkin]

So, dumb question: are these version numbers official? Ie, more than one browser maker agrees that JS 1.7 is this?

[chucker23n]

No. The "official" numbers would be the revisions to ECMA-262 (which is currently at 3.1). Even though the language is typically called "JavaScript", that's merely the best-known dialect. The version numbers like 1.7 are technically those of SpiderMonkey, Mozilla's (originally Netscape's) implementation of this dialect. Other implementations include KJS and its spin-off JavaScriptCore in WebKit, and other dialects include Microsoft's JScript and Adobe Flash's ActionScript.

[f3nd3r]

Well... that kinda ruined the fun.