JavaScript(history, purpose, usage, benefits, disadvantages) : week 2
JavaScript was born in the offices of Netscape in 1995. Brenden Eich is the father of JavaScript. Those days web was fully static, powered by simple HTML and CSS. Along with the time JS popped up as a front end language, becoming the standard programming language of the web. With the ECMA standardisation JavaScript was opened to a broader audience like Microsoft, etc. JavaScript brought dynamic features to the web. As in autocomplete, loading new content or data on to the page without reloading the page, Rollover effects and drop down menus, Animating page elements, Playing audio and video and validating input from forms. JavaScript is a Scripting language that can directly added to a html page and it is the only programming language that is understood by web browsers. JavaScript is a client side language. No matter what server side language is used the web site will run perfectly as JavaScript works. JavaScript is the most popula...