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Foil 72 General Remarks on JavaScript

From A Tutorial on Base Web Technologies CRPC Annual Meeting/NASA Langley/Trip to China -- May 14-17 June 10-13 1996 July 12-18 1996. by Geoffrey Fox
1 Historically JavaScript was called LiveScript and developed by Netscape with some of the same goals as Java but focussed on a "smaller world" -- manipulation of text and options connected with Netscape Clients
2 Now we can use it as an alternative to Java where the "rapid prototyping" of a fully scriped language is helpful
3 JavaScript can be thought of as Java with the AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) replaced by Netscape Client
4 JavaScript particularly useful for multi-frame windows and for manipulating forms without complex CGI (Server Side) scripts
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