Javascript - JS Introduction Question & Answer

Introduction  to JavaScript

JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich and it came into existence in September 1995, when Netscape 2.0 (a web browser) was released.

JavaScript was designed with a purpose to make web pages dynamic and more interactive. JavaScript is one of the popular scripting languages having following features :

(a) It can be used for client and server applications.

(b) It is platform independent which means it can run on any operating systems (i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X etc.).

(c) JavaScript codes are needed to be embedded or referenced into HTML documents then only it can run on a web browser.

(d) It is an interpreted language.

(e) It is a case-sensitive language and its keywords are in lowercase only.