... common variant of JavaScript; when most people refer to JavaScript, they usually mean client-side JavaScript. This book documents client-side JavaScript, along with the core JavaScript language ... Conformant implementations are JavaScript 1.5 and JScript 5.5.1.3 Client-Side JavaScript When a JavaScript interpreter is embedded in a web browser, the result is client-side JavaScript. This is by far ... in a web page, and, in this sense, JavaScript really can script Java (see Chapter 22 for details).1.1.2 JavaScript Is Not Simple JavaScript is touted as a scripting language instead of a programming...