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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Javascript history

In this post, I just collect information from Wikipedia and some portfolios of persons who makes Javascript to be success today.
Everything has its history. Understand the history of Javascript helps you have a broader knowledge and makes you more interesting in working with this great programming language.

JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha, which was later renamed to LiveScript, and finally to JavaScript. The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support for Java technology in its Netscape Navigator web browser. JavaScript was first introduced and deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3 in December 1995. The naming has caused confusion, giving the impression that the language is a spin-off of Java, and it has been characterized by many as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new web-programming language.

Microsoft named its dialect of the language JScript to avoid trademark issues. JScript was first supported in Internet Explorer version 3.0, released in August 1996, and it included Y2K-compliant date functions, unlike those based on java.util.Date in JavaScript at the time. The dialects are perceived to be so similar that the terms “JavaScript” and “JScript” are often used interchangeably (including in this article). Microsoft, however, notes dozens of ways in which JScript is not ECMA compliant.

Netscape submitted JavaScript to Ecma International for standardization resulting in the standardized version named ECMAScript.

(From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript)

Who make Javascript success?

Brendan Eich: the man invented Javascript


Brendan Eich

he created Javascript when he was in Netscape. Currently, Brendan Eich is CTO of Mozilla Corporation



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Douglas Crockford (JSON)

Discover Javascript and JSON.

He is well known for his work in introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

You can enjoy a lot of his good articles here

http://crockford.com/

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/douglascrockford





John Resig (JQuery)

pushed Javascript forward. He is the man creates JQuery - this is one of biggest successful projects of Javascript.

Now, John Resig is a JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques.




Sam Stephenson (PROTOTYPE)

Sam Stephenson

Sam created the Prototype JavaScript framework in February of 2005 as part of the foundation for Ajax support in Ruby on Rails. He lives in Chicago, writes web applications for 37signals, and tumblelogs on Projectionist.


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