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Web Programming with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
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Web Programming with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

by John Dean
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
678 pages
20h 16m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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8.2 History of JavaScript

HTML’s first version, designed by Tim Berners-Lee from 1989 to 1991, was fairly static in nature. Except for link jumps with the a element, web pages simply displayed content, and the content was fixed. In 1995, the dominant browser manufacturer was Netscape, and one of its employees, Brendan Eich, thought that it would be useful to add dynamic functionality to web pages. So he designed the JavaScript programming language, which adds dynamic functionality to web pages when used in conjunction with HTML. For example, JavaScript provides the ability to update a web page’s content when an event occurs, such as when a user clicks a button. It also provides the ability to retrieve a user’s input and process that input. ...

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