Chapter 1. Introduction to JavaScript
1.1 What JavaScript Is
JavaScript is a popular general-purpose scripting language used to put energy and pizzaz into otherwise dead Web pages by allowing a page to interact with users and respond to events that occur on the page. JavaScript has been described as the glue that holds Web pages together.1 It would be a hard task to find a commercial Web page, or almost any Web page, that does not contain some JavaScript code (see Figure 1.1).
Figure 1.1 A dynamic Web page using JavaScript to give it life. For example, if the user rolls the mouse over any of the text after the arrows, the text will become underscored ...
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