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Lightweight, object oriented, embeddable scripting language '''Author:''' Brendan Eich '''Homepage:''' http://www.ecmascript.org/ '''Wikipedia:''' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript '''Family:''' ScriptLanguage '''Platform:''' Runs in browser '''License:''' Open Source JavaScript was originally created for Netscape Navigator 2 by Brendan Eich, and was called <nowiki>LiveScript</nowiki>. It was renamed <nowiki>JavaScript</nowiki> by Netscape Marketing to capitalize on the popularity of the then new Java language. This has led to endless confusion over the years among folks who conflate the two. It's a lightweight, object oriented scripting language, originally intended to be embedded in web pages and interpreted by the browser, but it has spread to other areas. It's now a formal standard, called ECMAScript, and has been implemented in almost every current web browser. Adobe embeds a version called <nowiki>ActionScript</nowiki> in their software. Products based on the Mozilla codebase such as the <nowiki>ActiveState</nowiki> Komodo programmer's IDE and Songbird media player support it because it's part of the underlying Gecko rendering engine. Web based editors now exist written entirely in <nowiki>JavaScript</nowiki>.
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