JavaScript
JavaScript is a scripting language introduced by the Netscape Corporation in 1996. It is by now the standard scripting language for the Web.
The name JavaScript is an attempt to leech onto the hype that surrounded Java at the time the language was released. It has no connection with Java at all except that Sun (owners of the Java trademark) gave permission to use the Java name. 1996 really was the year of Java and there were lots of tools that added Java to their name and the fledging Linux operating system started to use a penguin as its mascot in the same year, aping "Duke" the penguin Java mascot that seemed to be virtually everywhere at the time.
Versions
| Language Version | Date | Netscape Product Version | Conformance |
|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript 1.0 | Mar 1996 | Navigator 2.x | |
| JavaScript 1.1 | Aug 1996 | Navigator 3.x | |
| JavaScript 1.2 | Jun 1997 | Communicator 4.0 - 4.05 | |
| JavaScript 1.3 | Oct 1998 | Communicator 4.06 and later | ECMA-262 1st & 2nd edition |
| JavaScript 1.4 | 1999 | Netscape Server | |
| JavaScript 1.5 | Nov 2000 | 6.0 (Mozilla) | ECMA-262 3rd edition |
| JavaScript 1.6 | Nov 2005 | Mozilla | |
| JavaScript 1.7 | Oct 2006 | Mozilla | |
| JavaScript 1.8 | Jun 2008 | Mozilla | |
| JavaScript 1.8.5 | 2010 |
OS/2 Implementations
WinOS/2 Implementations
- Netscape Navigator
Publications
- Marc Johnson: JavaScript Manual of Style - Ziff-Davis Press 1996, ISBN 1-56276-423-3
- Mark Reynolds, Andrew Wooldridge: Using JavaScript - Que 1996, ISBN 0-7897-0789-6