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JavaScript is a ProgrammingLanguage with DynamicTyping originally designed by Brendan Eich in 1995 for scripting NetscapeNavigator 2.0. Called !LiveScript in beta versions, but was renamed and slightly redesigned for marketing reasons in the final release after [Netscape] licensed [Java] from [Sun]. This has caused no end of confusion as the two languages have nearly nothing in common besides the first four letters of their names.
-The language has grown over the years. The standard implementation is called ECMAScript, named after the standardization institute it was handed to. Contrary to popular belief, these versions are pretty compatible. The problem many webdesigners were faced with is that the DocumentObjectModel used to offer access to the HTML document a script belongs to in a browser has varied wildly.
+The language has grown over the years. The standard implementation is called ECMAScript, named after the standardization institute [ECMA] that
it was handed to. Contrary to popular belief, these versions are pretty compatible. The problem many webdesigners were faced with is that the DocumentObjectModel used to offer access to the HTML document a script belongs to in a browser has varied wildly.
There are many pages on the web about JavaScript, but one of the best is the JavaScript section at [Peter-Paul Koch's site | http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/].
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