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Scripting Languages

Scripting languages like JavaScript, Jscript, and AJAX are core elements of web development that enhance interactivity and the user experience. JavaScript was originally developed as LiveScript by Netscape and later renamed. Jscript was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer. AJAX uses technologies like JavaScript and XML to asynchronously update parts of a webpage without reloading the entire page. While JavaScript and Jscript have some differences in implementation, they provide similar core functionality to make websites more dynamic. AJAX further improves the user experience by reducing load times and increasing interactivity.

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Scripting Languages

Scripting languages like JavaScript, Jscript, and AJAX are core elements of web development that enhance interactivity and the user experience. JavaScript was originally developed as LiveScript by Netscape and later renamed. Jscript was developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer. AJAX uses technologies like JavaScript and XML to asynchronously update parts of a webpage without reloading the entire page. While JavaScript and Jscript have some differences in implementation, they provide similar core functionality to make websites more dynamic. AJAX further improves the user experience by reducing load times and increasing interactivity.

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Jscript, Ajax and JavaScript

This is the era of web browsing and scripting languages are one of the core elements of
Web Development. Scripting languages and tools enable loads of features to enhance
interactivity, security and browsing of a website. Further to this, it gives many flexible
options both to the users while browsing and the developers in order to make user
friendly websites. Scripting languages can be used both for the simple tasks like mouse
over and complex tasks like posting data into databases. It is, therefore, becoming more
and more important for the web developers to make the best use of the scripting
languages and tools. Some of the majorly used scripting languages and tools are stated
below.

JavaScript:

Netscape developed a scripting language named as LiveScript that enabled web developers to
create interactive and dynamic websites. It was soon named as JavaScript and it is a client side
language. Client side applications are efficient and dynamic as compared to server side
applications. Furthermore, JavaScript is an open language that doesn’t require the purchase of
any licenses. It is supported by all the current browsers like Chrome, Opera, Firefox etc.

Jscript:

Jscript was developed by Microsoft and it was implemented as Windows Script Engine. It is
normally used by Internet Explorer, Windows Script Host and Active Server Pages. Further,
Jscript has all the features of JavaScript but it was named as Jscript to get around the trademark
issues. Jscript is also a client side language and unlike JavaScript, it supports conditional
compilation and execution of selective code. Jscript can interact with HTML and XHTML
source code to enable its dynamic feature on a specific website.

AJAX:

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX itself is neither a technology nor a


scripting language; it is actually a group of interrelated technologies of web development. Some
of the technologies used by AJAX are XHTML, Document Object Module, XSLT, XML,
XMLHttpRequest Object and Cascading Style Sheet. AJAX is a client side tool containing the
feature of JavaScript. Additionally, it retrieves data from the server in asynchronous mode
without changing the existing web page. Hence, its core feature is that the user interface of a
website can be updated without refreshing or reloading all the other objects of the web page.
AJAX is supported by all the latest browsers.
Comparison

JavaScript and Jscript are same language with difference in trademark except for some features.
Netscape handed the JavaScript over to European Computer Manufacturers Association also
known as ECMA after Microsoft was becoming popular and Internet Explorer was becoming the
widely used browser. Microsoft Internet Explorer is the interpreter of Jscript whereas the
JavaScript is interpreted in all browsers other than Internet Explorer. Both languages have
introduced and added many new features with the passage of time. The biggest different between
Jscript and JavaScript are all the commands that Jscript supports to access ActiveX and the local
computer.

AJAX is a methodology used by JavaScript to retrieve data from the server. Moreover, AJAX is
a tool that is used by scripting languages and scripting applications to perform a specified task
and to enhance the functionality of a web page. Web developers also use AJAX for updating the
information dynamically at server end that increases the interactivity and saves resources of the
user while browsing websites.

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