JavaScript

• primarily a browser programming language (note: can also be used server-side)

• simple language - not Java

• object-oriented approach

• code typically embedded into HTML Web page between <script> and </script> tags

• can also <link> to external JavaScript file

• developed originally by Netscape

• a.k.a ECMAScript (JavaScript as standardised by ECMA)

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