Advanced Javascript, 3rd Edition

Chapter 1Introduction to JavaScript

The World Wide Web

With each passingyear the Internet becomes a more integral part of our lives, and web pages (along with e-mail) are probably the most common way we use the Internet. Twenty years ago there were few web pages, and not many people using them. Most of those web pages were very plain, simple text with an occasional inserted image, all done with simple HTML. As more and more end users discovered the Internet, however, web page developers found those users had quite an appetite for expanded graphics and functionality.

Simple, plain HTML web pages were no longer attractive to end users. New technologies emerged to help enhance web pages, and JavaScript has been, for the past decade, one of the most ...