Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eternal Hope Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: questions re Javascript Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:00:54 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:58:54 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2ab430ef8c6b5deb5816c858366218e1"; logging-data="5236"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Ow47RHOr5HX9Im6R8T23eFvz8FN905eA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:v69Dhz8V5Z+dUR7Zoq6V3jHkHjA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32462 On 02/09/2015 00:26, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:26:38 -0700, rdelaney2001 wrote: > >> I'm trying to get a handle in what Javascript is, isn't, >> what it does.... >> >> Is it a language, or a set of library routines? If the latter, how are >> they accessed? >> > Its a language, originally developed by Netscape to allow input > validation, etc, to be carried out locally on the HTML browser. > >> Is it used, or useful, for anything besides hovering the cursor over an >> image on a Web page? >> > Yes. Very many web pages are infested with it. Ha ha, not a fan then. Actually I'm starting to find Javascript invaluable. AJAX is possibly the single most important technology stack when it comes to making web sites more like desktop applications. My commercal sites make heavy use of AJAX and I get universal approval from my customers when it comes to useability. -- Laughing Spam Fritter