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JavaScript has evolved into a powerful, robust programming language. In this video, you'll more about how the JavaScript language and its standards evolved into their current state.
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Earlier I briefly covered the history of
JavaScript, in this video I'll talk about
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how the JavaScript language and its
standard evolved to their current state.
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When JavaScript was officially
released in Netscape Navigator,
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it became in instant game
changer in web user experience.
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So competing browsers couldn't help but
to take notice and
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come up with their own
version of JavaScript.
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Microsoft in particular wanted
a scripting language for their browser,
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Internet Explorer.
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So they've created their own
implementation of JavaScript.
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They named their version, JScript,
since the name JavaScript was trademarked.
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The differences between JavaScript and
JScript, made it difficult for
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