ISO is set to rubber stamp ECMAScript, the European Computer Manufacturers Association’s enhanced version of JavaScript as the ISO/IEC 16262 standard by the end of the summer. ECMAScript – officially ECMA TC-262 – is used to design web pages that support Java applications. ECMA first met to try and identify an enhanced version of JavaScript that would be suitable for industry-wide use in 1996. The first version of ECMA-262 was approved in June, 1997. ISO’s ballot on ECMAscript lasted from October 1997 to April 1998 and the final coordinated ISO/IEC 16262 and ECMA 262 standard will be published during the summer of 1998. Less than two years between the first meeting and the ISO/IEC publication of this standard is probably some kind of record, ISO’s SC22 Java group observes.