Web Technologies in a Nutshell - JavaScript

• JavaScript -- only superficially related to Java and was called LiveScript -- is Netscape's (somewhat supported by Microsoft) fully interpreted Client side extension of HTML. This is a good Client Window integration/customization technology where flexibility more important than performance

• i.e. use JavaScript for Rapid Prototyping of Complex User Interfaces

  • Current examples use JavaScript together with frames ( HTML extension) for interactive multi-window technologies
  • JavaScript is roughly equivalent to "Abstract Windowing Toolkit/ Layout Manager" in Java but applied to Browser Frames and not Java windows
  • JavaScript cannot build filters or simulations as slow

• Server side version of JavaScript called LiveWire runs on Netscape Servers

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version