An overview for those who think they know about JavaScript
JavaScript® (often shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic, is type safe, and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
The JavaScript standard is ECMAScript. As of 2012, all modern browsers fully support ECMAScript 5.1. Older browsers support at least ECMAScript 3. A 6th major revision of the standard is in the works. The current progress of different new and improved features can be followed on the dedicated wiki.
This section of the site is dedicated to the JavaScript language itself, the parts that are not specific to Web pages, or other host environments. For information about APIs specific to Web pages, please see DOM. Read more about how DOM and JavaScript fit together in the DOM Reference.
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