JavaScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - 2.33, by Herong Yang
ECMAScript Language Specification and JavaScript Dialects
This chapter provides introductions and tutorial examples on the ECMAScript language specification and JavaScript dialects. Topics include history of JavaScript; versions of dialects: LiveScript, JavaScript, JScript, JScript .NET; interface with host environments; automatic semicolon insertion.
JavaScript History and Versions
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Table of Contents
►ECMAScript Language Specification and JavaScript Dialects
Data Types, Variables and Expressions
Creating, Accessing, and Manipulating Arrays
Defining and Calling Functions
Web Browser Supporting JavaScript
Server-Side and Client-Side Web Scripting
Defining Your Own Object Types
Inheritance of Properties and Methods through the Prototype Object Chain
'jrunscript' - JavaScript Shell Command from JDK
Using Functions as "Function" Objects
Introduction to Built-in Object Types
W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) Specifications