JavaScript Programming Language - JavaScript, Bookmarklet, JavaScript Syntax, Comparison of JavaScript Frameworks, Json, Xmlhttprequest, Ajax (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 197. Not illustrated. Chapters: Javascript, Bookmarklet, Javascript Syntax, Comparison of Javascript Frameworks, Json, Xmlhttprequest, Ajax, Comparison of Javascript-Based Source Code Editors, Server-Side Javascript, Client-Side Javascript, ?:, Unobtrusive Javascript, Javascript Engine, Jsonml, Appcelerator Titanium, Lightbox, Dwr, Jsdoc, Objective-J, Minification, Javascript Style Sheets, Sproutcore, Reverse Ajax, Java Caps, Venkman, Javascriptmvc, Medireview, Rico, Ajax.oop, Jsan, Tiscript, Bson, Log4javascript, Jsonnp, Jssp. Excerpt: the JavaScript series. JavaScript is a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. Although also used in other applications, it is primarily used in the form of client-side JavaScript, implemented as part of a web browser, providing enhanced user interfaces and dynamic websites. JavaScript is a dialect of the ECMAScript standard and is characterized as a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions. JavaScript was influenced by many languages and was designed to look like Java, but to be easier for non-programmers to work with. JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha, which was later renamed to LiveScript, and finally to JavaScript. The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support for Java technology in its Netscape Navigator web browser. JavaScript was first introduced and deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3 in December 1995. The naming has caused confusion, giving the impression that the language is a spin-off of Java, and it has been characterized by many as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new web-programming language. J..