PUBLIC MARKS from amyrussell with tags mozilla & microsoft

It's always interesting when the wider tech media picks up on a turf war that would otherwise be visible only to its participants, their peers and the followers of obscure programming blogs. Ars Technica and Slashdot are now reporting on ECMAScript 4/JavaScript 2 dust-up that's been big news on Ajaxian all month. These fairly insidery sites aren't losing too many of the story's nuances. But several more generalized IT publications have picked up a story from IDG News Service's Chris Kanaracus that reduces it to a "Mozilla vs. Microsoft" thing. Even Slashdot and Ars Technica can't resist the easy headline: