Category: Defining JavaScript

  • What Makes JavaScript Specific

    There are at least three perfect things about JavaScript: It supports complete integration with CSS and HTML. It provides straightforward ways of doing simple things. It is supported by almost all the major browsers and is performed by default. It is the exclusive browser technology that encompasses the three great things above. In modern programming, JavaScript is…

  • Limitations of In-browser JavaScript

    The capabilities of JavaScript are limited for the purpose of keeping the user’s safety. With it, an evil web page can’t access private information or harm the user’s data. Here are some examples of such restrictions: JavaScript has no direct access to OS functions. It can’t read and write arbitrary files on the hard disc,…

  • What In-browser JavaScript Does

    Modern JavaScript is considered a safe programming language. It never provides low-level access to the memory or CPU as it was made for the browsers that don’t require it. The capabilities of this language highly rely on the environment it runs in. For example, Node.js includes functions allowing JavaScript to write and read arbitrary files,…

  • Defining JavaScript

    JavaScript is a scripting or a programming language, allowing developers to perform complex features on web pages. Initially, this language was created for making web pages alive. In JavaScript, the programs are called scripts. One can write them in the HTML of a web page, then it will automatically run once the page loads. At this point,…