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Check your facts.

The standards body for JavaScript is Ecma International -- hence JavaScript being officially known and standardized as "ECMAScript".

Additionally, JavaScript began at Netscape in 1995 two years before it was a published standard.

See Wikipedia:

The W3C had nothing to do with the design of JavaScript or even DOM 0.

No actually the down-votes are because you don't know what you're talking about --and are arrogant about it on top.