Sun's Java is fast becoming a broad industry standard |
Java is well designed and documented |
Java is object-oriented with (single) inheritance |
Java is class-based |
JavaScript is primarily supported by Netscape and Microsoft |
JavaScript started quite "roughly" but is improving in design -- however some issues connected to browser are totally ill defined as browser ill defined -- e.g. what happens in what order when frames loaded .... |
JavaScript is object-based with no class structure |
JavaScript is prototype-based |