From c17003f4fe94cea5ac703878595cabb60206087f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Franz Geiger Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 22:06:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix: Wrong name for Firefox JavaScript engine Gecko is the layout engine of Firefox. The JavaScript engine is called SpiderMonkey --- 1-js/01-getting-started/1-intro/article.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/1-js/01-getting-started/1-intro/article.md b/1-js/01-getting-started/1-intro/article.md index 74521076..1e2e97d7 100644 --- a/1-js/01-getting-started/1-intro/article.md +++ b/1-js/01-getting-started/1-intro/article.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ The browser has an embedded engine, sometimes it's also called a "JavaScript vir Different engines have different "codenames", for example: - [V8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine)) -- in Chrome and Opera. -- [Gecko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)) -- in Firefox. +- [SpiderMonkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey) -- in Firefox. - ...There are other codenames like "Trident", "Chakra" for different versions of IE, "ChakraCore" for Microsoft Edge, "Nitro" and "SquirrelFish" for Safari etc. The terms above are good to remember, because they are used in developer articles on the internet. We'll use them too. For instance, if "a feature X is supported by V8", then it probably works in Chrome and Opera.