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So, along with Macromedia, work restarted on ECMAScript 4 with the goal of standardizing what was in ActionScript 3. To this end, Adobe Systems released the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2, code named [[Tamarin (software)|Tamarin]], as an [[open source]] project. But Tamarin and ActionScript 3 were too different from web JavaScript to converge, as was realized by the parties in 2007 and 2008.

Alas, there was still turmoil between the various players; [[Douglas Crockford]]—then at [[Yahoo!]]—joined forces with Microsoft in 2007 to oppose ECMAScript 4, which led to the ECMAScript 3.1 effort. The development of ECMAScript 4 was never completed, but that work influenced subsequent versions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecmascript.org/docs.php |title=Documentation |last=|first=|date=|website=ecmascript.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426141932/http://www.ecmascript.org/docs.php|archive-date=2011-04-26|dead-url=|access-date=16 July 2016 }}{{dead link|datequote=Marchdevelopment 2018of |bot=InternetArchiveBota |fix-attempted=yesFourth Edition was not completed, that work influenced Fifth Edition}}</ref>

While all of this was happening, the open source and developer communities set to work to revolutionize what could be done with JavaScript. This community effort was sparked in 2005 when [[Jesse James Garrett]] released a white paper in which he coined the term [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]], and described a set of technologies, of which JavaScript was the backbone, used to create web applications where data can be loaded in the background, avoiding the need for full page reloads and leading to more dynamic applications. This resulted in a renaissance period of JavaScript usage spearheaded by open source libraries and the communities that formed around them, with libraries such as [[Prototype JavaScript Framework|Prototype]], [[jQuery]], [[Dojo Toolkit]], [[MooTools]], and others being released.