Appendix A. JavaScript Genealogy and Reference
JavaScript has been transformed over the past several years, since its introduction as part of Netscape Navigator 2.0. This appendix briefly discusses the different versions of JavaScript and which browsers include which version of JavaScript.
You’ll also find a JavaScript object flowchart as well as a table listing most of the JavaScript software objects up to and including JavaScript version 1.5, along with their properties, methods, and event handlers.
JavaScript Versions
The scripting language that you think of as JavaScript has several different names (depending on whose product you have) and almost a dozen different versions. Besides JavaScript, there are also JScript and ECMAScript. Here’s a guide ...
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