The latest in the ongoing series of political battles surrounding apparently obscure technical arguments concerns JavaScript, whose mobile profile is managed by the Open Mobile Alliance, and which is critical to creating web services and multimedia applications for small devices. The two companies are leading a clash over the next version of JavaScript, which in its standards- based implementation is officially called ECMAScript. Microsoft is arguing that a completely new language is needed to cope with the new demands of the internet, and unsurprisingly as volunteered a project based on its own Jscript as an alternative to a simple version 4.0 of ECMAScript. Meanwhile, open source software house Mozilla, whose CTO Brendan Eich was the creator of JavaScript, is calling…