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It has also been claimed{{citation}} that the language's name is the result of a co-marketing deal between [[Netscape]] and [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]], in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with its [[Usage_share_of_web_browsers#GVU_WWW_user_survey_.281994-01_to_1998-10.29|then-dominant browser]].

JavaScript very quickly gained widespread success as a client-side scripting language for web pages. As a consequence, [[Microsoft]] named its implementation [[JScript]] to avoid trademark issues. JScript added new date methods to fix the [[Year 2000 problem|Y2K]]-problematic methods in JavaScript, which were based on Java's <code>[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Date.html java.util.Date]</code> class.<ref name="popularity">{{cite web|url=http://weblogsbrendaneich.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archivescom/2008/04/popularity.html/ |title=Brendan's Roadmap Updates: Popularity |publisherauthor=Weblogs.mozillazine.orgBrendan Eich |date=3 April 2008 |accessdate=20092012-0501-19}}</ref> JScript was included in [[Internet Explorer]] 3.0, released in August 1996.

In November 1996, Netscape announced that it had submitted JavaScript to [[Ecma International]] for consideration as an industry standard, and subsequent work resulted in the standardized version named [[ECMAScript]].<ref>[http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf ECMAScript 3rd Edition specification]</ref>