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Within one year, Microsoft had added JScript to Internet Explorer.

Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster. JavaScript was neither Java or a cut-down scripting language.

The press statement confusingly implies that JavaScript is somehow linked with Java - which continues to cause confusion to this day. This was a clever marketing ploy in 1995 when Java was heralded as the solution to all IT woes. JavaScript scripts are designed to run on both clients and servers modify the properties and behavior of Java objects. The change to JavaScript coincided with Netscape adding Java applet support to the Navigator web browser: The project was code-named Mocha and initially named LiveScript. JavaScript is analogous to Visual Basic in that it can be used by people with little or no programming experience to quickly construct complex applications.īrendan Eich’s quickly-designed language first shipped with the beta release of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995. The JavaScript language complements Java, Sun’s industry-leading object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. JavaScript was boldly described as “an open, cross-platform object scripting language for the creation and customization of applications on enterprise networks and the Internet.” The statement revealed: The language was backed by 28 industry-leading companies, although few of them survive to this day. On Decema joint press release from Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems announced the arrival of JavaScript.