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JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. It was the originating dialect of the ECMAScript standard. It is 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 be easier for non-programmers to work with.
Although best known for its use in websites (as client-side JavaScript), JavaScript is also used to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other applications (see below).


JavaScript, despite the name, is essentially unrelated to the Java programming language, although both have the common C syntax, and JavaScript copies many Java names and naming conventions. The language was originally named "LiveScript" but was renamed in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser. The key design principles within JavaScript are inherited from the Self programming language.
"JavaScript" is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. It was used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape Communications and current entities such as the Mozilla Foundation.
What is JavaScript?
JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language for client and server applications. There are two types of JavaScript:
Navigator JavaScript, also called client-side JavaScript LiveWire JavaScript, also called server-side JavaScript JavaScript in Navigator
Netscape Navigator 2.0 (and later versions) can interpret JavaScript statements embedded in an HTML page. When Navigator requests such a page, the server sends the full content of the document, including HTML and JavaScript statements, over the network to the client. The Navigator then displays the HTML and executes the JavaScript, producing the results that the user sees. This process is illustrated in the following figure.