Presented at ~conf July 14, 2003 by Andrew Hedges, Design Team Manager, Interactive Multimedia Applications Group
What is JavaScript?JavaScript is a simple, yet powerful client-side scripting language, embedded in HTML pages and interpreted “on-the-fly” by Web browser software (and, increasingly, other “user-agents”). Its syntax and structure are similar to C and Perl. JavaScript is not Java! JavaScript was originally developed by Netscape, then extended by other companies and ultimately adopted as a standard (ECMAScript) by the European Computer Manufacturers Association. |
Document URL: http://www.gwu.edu/~ahedges/javascript/
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