JAVASCRIPT
PRESENTATION
2024-2025
S U B JE C T : P H P | L E C T U R E R: AB D I KAR I M IB RA H I M
M OH AM E D
STUDENT PRESENTATION
NO. ID NAME TOPIC
1. 12609 Fu’ad Mohamed Intro Java Script
Abdirahman
2. 12816 Meymun Abdullahi Dahir Limitations of JS
3. 12741 Safiyo Hassan Afrah
4. 12xxx Ahmed Abukar
5. 12xxx A/Fitah Dahir Ali
JAVASCRIPT – Overview
What is JavaScript?
Client-Side JavaScript
Advantages of JavaScript
Limitations of JavaScript
JavaScript Development Tools
Where is JavaScript Today?
What is JavaScript?
Javascript is a dynamic computer programming language. It is
lightweight and most commonly used as a part of web pages, whose
implementations allow client-side script to interact with the user and
make dynamic pages. It is an interpreted programming language with
object-oriented capabilities. JavaScript was first known as LiveScript, but
Netscape changed its name to JavaScript, possibly because of the
excitement being generated by Java. JavaScript made its first
appearance in Netscape 2.0 in 1995 with the name LiveScript.
What is JavaScript?
The general-purpose core of the language has been embedded in Netscape,
Internet Explorer, and other web browsers. The ECMA-262 Specification defined
a standard version of the core JavaScript language.
JavaScript is a lightweight, interpreted programming language.
Designed for creating network-centric applications.
Complementary to and integrated with Java.
Complementary to and integrated with HTML.
Open and cross-platform.
Client-Side JavaScript
Client-side JavaScript is the most common form of the language. The
script should be included in or referenced by an HTML document for
the code to be interpreted by the browser. It means that a web page
need not be a static HTML, but can include programs that interact
with the user, control the browser, and dynamically create HTML
content. The JavaScript client-side mechanism provides many
advantages over traditional CGI server-side scripts.
Client-Side JavaScript
For example, you might use JavaScript to check if the user has
entered a valid e-mail address in a form field.
The JavaScript code is executed when the user submits the form,
and only if all the entries are valid, they would be submitted to
the Web Server. JavaScript can be used to trap user-initiated
events such as button clicks, link navigation, and other actions
that the user initiates explicitly or implicitly.
Advantages of JavaScript
The merits of using JavaScript are:
Less server interaction: You can validate user input before sending the page off to the server.
This saves server traffic, which means less load on your server.
Immediate feedback to the visitors: They don't have to wait for a page reload to see if they
have forgotten to enter something.
Increased interactivity: You can create interfaces that react when the user hovers over them
with a mouse or activates them via the keyboard.
Richer interfaces: You can use JavaScript to include such items as drag-and drop components
and sliders to give a Rich Interface to your site visitors.
Limitations of JavaScript
We cannot treat JavaScript as a full-fledged programming language. It lacks the
following important features:
Client-side JavaScript does not allow the reading or writing of files. This has been
kept for security reason.
JavaScript cannot be used for networking applications because there is no such
support available.
JavaScript doesn't have any multithreading or multiprocessor capabilities.
Once again, JavaScript is a lightweight, interpreted programming language that
allows you to build interactivity into otherwise static HTML pages.
JavaScript Development Tools
One of major strengths of JavaScript is that it does not require expensive
development tools. You can start with a simple text editor such as Notepad. Since
it is an interpreted language inside the context of a web browser, you don't even
need to buy a compiler.
To make our life simpler, various vendors have come up with very nice JavaScript
editing tools. Some of them are listed here:
Microsoft FrontPage: Microsoft has developed a popular HTML editor called
FrontPage. FrontPage also provides web developers with a number of JavaScript
tools to assist in the creation of interactive websites.
JavaScript Development Tools
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX is a very
popular HTML and JavaScript editor in the professional web
development crowd. It provides several handy prebuilt JavaScript
components, integrates well with databases, and conforms to new
standards such as XHTML and XML.
Macromedia HomeSite 5: HomeSite 5 is a well-liked HTML and
JavaScript editor from Macromedia that can be used to manage
personal websites effectively.
Where is JavaScript Today?
The ECMAScript Edition 5 standard will be the first update to be released
in over four years. JavaScript 2.0 conforms to Edition 5 of the ECMAScript
standard, and the difference between the two is extremely minor.
The specification for JavaScript 2.0 can be found on the following site:
http://www.ecmascript.org/ Today, Netscape's JavaScript and Microsoft's
JScript conform to the ECMAScript standard, although both the languages
still support the features that are not a part of the standard.
