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Monday, January 16, 2023

Collection of quotes about JavaScript

This post is a collection of quotes about JavaScript (initially released in 1995). There are 7 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0

 

1. "As of 2022, 98% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpages behavior... All major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on users' devices." (Wikipedia: JavaScript, 1.8.23 UTC 14:56)

 

2. "[JavaScript] is multi-paradigm, supporting event-driven, functional, and imperative programming styles. It has application programming interfaces (APIs) for working with text, dates, regular expression, standard data structures, and the Document Object Model (DOM)." (Wikipedia: JavaScript, 1.8.23 UTC 14:56)

 

3 . "During [the] formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourish web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a scripting language to Navigator." (Wikipedia: JavaScript, 1.8.23 UTC 14:56)

 

4. "ECMAScript is a JavaScript standard intended to ensure the interoperability of web pages across different browsers." (Wikipedia: ECMAScript, 1.10.23 UTC 22:26)

 

5. "The current JavaScript ecosystem has many libraries and frameworks, established programming practices, and substantial usage of JavaScript outside of web browsers." (Wikipedia: JavaScript, 1.8.23 UTC 14:56)

 

6. "Although Java and JavaScript are similar in name, syntax, and respective standard libraries, the two languages are distinct and differ greatly in design." (Wikipedia: JavaScript, 1.8.23 UTC 14:56)

 

7. "Examples of scripted behavior:

 

  1. Loading new web page content without reloading the page...
  2. Webpage animations...
  3. Playing browser games.
  4. Controlling the playback of streaming media.
  5. Generating pop-up ads or alert boxes.
  6. Validating input values of a web form before data is sent to a web server.
  7. Logging data about the user's behavior then sending it to a server...
  8. Redirecting a user to another page.
  9. Storing and retrieving data on the user's device..."

 

(Wikipedia: JavaScript, 1.8.23 UTC 14:56)