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'''JavaScript''' is the name of Netscape Communications Corporation's implementation of the ECMAScript standard, a scripting language based on the concept of prototype-based programming. The language is best known for its use in websites (as client-side JavaScript), but is also used to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other applications. |
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Despite the name, JavaScript is only distantly related to the [[Java]] programming language, the main similarity being their common debt to the [[C]] syntax. Semantically, JavaScript syntax has far more in common with the [[Self]] [[programming language]]. |
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JavaScript is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. It was used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape Communications and current entities such as the Mozilla Foundation. |
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JavaScript has been born again, now that [[AJAX]] has come up. The meaning of this, is simply that [[AJAX]] has shown that JavaScript is really still usefull, in a lot of domains, and that, using it, (most) web pages can be given a whole new life. |
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==Citations== |
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript Wikipedia:Javascript] |