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A Quick JavaScript History Lesson
Back in the good old days, (about 1995), when MSIE was just a
twinkle in Steve Job's eye (or Bill Gates'), Netscape Communications
came out with JavaScript the first (I think) client-side browser scripting
language. It allowed web developers to run code from the webpage in
the viewer's browser without the user needing to communicate with the
server. Soon there were many uses and abuse of this technology. Scrolling
text, text-box clocks, flashing/changing page background colors- some of
it all useful and some not-so-useful. Since those first days of
JavaScript, there have been many revisions and additions, and also some
copycats. Microsoft soon came out with their JScript, which basically does
all the same things for their browser that JavaScript did for Netscape.
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