Advanced Web Development(IT4020)
Unit-1
Basics of JavaScript
Prof. Roshni Patel
Prof. Dipesh Shahane
Assistant Professor
Asha M. Tarsadia Institute of Computer Science and Technology
,Introduction of JavaScript
,History
First web scripting language
Developed by Netscape and Sun Microsystems
Initiated by Netscape and called LiveScript
In parallel with this, Sun Microsystems was developing Java
Netscape and Sun Microsystems got together and realized that many of the specifica
Java could apply to LiveScript
Result is JavaScript
, JavaScript Introduction
JavaScript is a object-based scripting language and it is light weighted.
It is first implemented by Netscape (with help from Sun Microsystems).
JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich at Netscape in 1995 for the purpose of
code in web-pages (performing logical operation on client side).
It is not compiled but translated. JavaScript Translator is responsible to tran
JavaScript code which is embedded in browser.
JavaScript runs on the client side (Browser) of the web pages.
JavaScript also runs on the server side. Node.js is popular example.
JavaScript control the web page behavior on the occurrence of an event.
JavaScript is a full-fledged dynamic programming language