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JavaScript
By Marcus Eatmon
• History of JavaScript
• How JavaScript Relates to Java
• The Document Object Model
Sound
By Miguel Urbina
• The Future of Digital Music
• The MP3 File Format
• The Napstar Controversy
Pictures
By David Zavala
• Compression in GIF and JPG
• History of GIF Formats
• Why PNG may (or may not) Replace GIF
Animation
By Mattie Lee Holman
• Flash and Shockwave
• Persistence of Vision
• Traditional and Digital Animation
Engineering
By Demond Fagan
• HTTP
• TCP/IP
• Webserver
HTML
By Ericka Wilkins
• Hypertext
• History of HTML
• How HTML Works
Other JavaScript Sites...
• C. Ott
• Dr. Joe Burns
• Java Boutique
• Website Abstraction
• about.com
search "JavaScript"
• Webmonkey
• Voodoo's


JavaScript is a loosely scripting language based on Java that was designed to for developers and end-users, but more specifically for the thousands of web designers and developers who needed to be able to tie into server databases by using forms, frames, and/or images without a compiler or knowledge of object-oriented software design. Meaning, JavaScript is basically its own software language running within a HTML language.

Netscape Communications realizing that there was a market for this type of scripting language acquired Brendan Eich to design the script for Netscape. Eich whom they had acquired from MicroUnity Systems Engineering in 1995, and JavaScript was born. He incorporated the new scripting language into the existing Netscape Navigator browser.

The first version of JavaScript scripting language created by Eich was called LiveScript. Another name for JavaScript was Mocha before finally deciding on JavaScript. Also, in the same year Netscape and Sun Microsystems came together, and announced the new language on December 4, 1995. JavaScript is useable on Internet Explorer and Netscape.

Microsoft responded to JavaScript with a scripting language called VBScript. Also, on July 16, 1996 Microsoft released a port to JavaScript called Jscript.

JavaScript is dependent on specific object models, and this is both, the central part of its strength and the main error in its execution. Finally, JavaScript is not able to hide its code making it vulnerable to others to view.

(By Marcus Eatmon Reference: Steve champeon. JavaScript: How Did We Get Here? http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2001/04/06/js_history.html)












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CIS 351
Week 1: Basic HTML Pages
Week 2: Designing with Text
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Week 4: Applets and Embedded Sound "Games"
Week 5: Designing for the Web
Week 6: Embedded Video
Week 7: JavaScript Basics
Week 8: JavaScript Graphic Tricks
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JavaScript: By Marcus Eatmon
History of JavaScript | How JavaScript Relates to Java | The Document Object Model


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