Introduction

JavaScript is a small, lightweight, scripting language. It is a superset of, and conformant to, ECMAScript-3, specified in ECMA-262 edition 3.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript
• http://ecmascript.org

JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. Well, almost nothing. Their names both start with the same four letters.

To quote Douglas Crockford, JavaScript is the World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language. He goes on to call to JavaScript "LISP in C's clothing".

If you are not an expert JavaScript programmer (and even if you are), you should buy Doug's latest book - it is excellent: JavaScript: The Good Parts