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  1. Designed by

    Brendan Eich of Netscape first; then others contributed to ECMAScript standard

    First appeared

    4 December 1995
    History

    The first popular web browser with a graphical user interface, Mosaic, was released in 1993. The lead developers of Mosaic then founded the Netscape corporation, which released a more polished bro… See more

    Trademark

    "JavaScript" is a trademark of Oracle Corporation in the United States. The trademark was originally issued to Sun Microsystems on 6 May 1997, and was transferred to Oracle when they acquired Sun in 2009. … See more

    Website client-side usage

    JavaScript is the dominant client-side scripting language of the Web, with 99% of all websites using it for this purpose. Scripts are embedded in or included from HTML documents and interact with the DOM.
    All major … See more

    Other usage

    The use of JavaScript has expanded beyond its web browser roots. JavaScript engines are now embedded in a variety of other software systems, both for server-side website deployments and non-browser applicationsSee more

  1. Outline of the JavaScript programming language - Wikipedia

    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to JavaScript: JavaScript (JS) [a] is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

  2. JavaScript - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    JavaScript is a high-level programming language that follows the ECMAScript standard. It is widely used for web development, server-side programming, and embedded applications. Learn about its history, …

  3. JavaScript - MDN Web Docs

    • JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted (or just-in-time compiled) programming language with first-…
      JavaScript's dynamic capabilities include runtime object construction, variable parameter lists, function variables, dynamic script creation (via eval), object introspection (via for...in and Object utilities), and source-code recovery (JavaScript functions store their source text and can be retrieved through toStrin…
    • This section is dedicated to the JavaScript language itself, and not the parts that are specific to Web p…
      The standards for JavaScript are the ECMAScript Language Specification (ECMA-262) and the ECMAScript Internationalization API specification (ECMA-402). As soon as one browser implements a feature, we try to document it. This means that cases where some proposals for new ECMAScript featu…
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  4. JavaScript Tutorial - W3Schools

    W3Schools maintains a complete JavaScript reference, including all HTML and browser objects. The reference contains examples for all properties, methods and …

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  5. JavaScript (programming language) - Wikipedia

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  6. JavaScript - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

    Aug 7, 2025 · This book is a guide to JavaScript, a scripting language widely used in web pages and web applications such as email applications. JavaScript is not to be confused with Java, which is quite a …

  7. JavaScript syntax - Wikipedia

    The syntax of JavaScript is the set of rules that define a correctly structured JavaScript program. The examples below make use of the console.log() function …

  8. JavaScript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Aug 19, 2025 · JavaScript (/ ˈdʒɑːvəskrɪpt /), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of …

  9. What is JavaScript? - Learn web development | MDN

    Jan 12, 2026 · In this article we will look at JavaScript from a high level, answering questions such as "What is it?" and "What can you do with it?", and making sure you …

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