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外文原文 来源： 《Mastering Ajax》 14 Aug 2007 From OReilly Media Inc. 2JavaScript Refresher JavaScript is an essential piece of the Ajax package. JavaScript serves as the intermediary between the browser (the client) and the server so that a web page can be dynamically updated without refreshing the entire page. JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich and introduced in the 1995 release of Netscape 2.0. Because JavaScript offered a means to add interactivity to HTML pages, it quickly became popular and widely used. Different versions were developed both by Netscape and other browser manufacturers, but eventually the JavaScript language was standardized by the European Computer Manufacturer’s Association (ECMA) as ECMAScript. The ECMAScript standard defines the core of the JavaScript language. Most browsers today support the third edition of the ECMA-262 standard. This chapter provides a review of core JavaScript (ECMAScript), JavaScript objects, the Document Object Model (DOM), and event handling for readers who have some familiarity and experience with JavaScript and with basic programming constructs (variables, operators, functions). If you’re new to programming and/or JavaScript, refer to books such as Beginning JavaScript, Second Edition (Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, 2004) and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, 2005) for more comprehensive information about JavaScript. In this chapter, you learn about these topics: ? Core JavaScript (variables, operators, statements, functions) ? Object-oriented JavaScript (built-in objects, the Browser Object Model, user-defined objects) ? The Document Object Model (DOM) ? JavaScript and events Core JavaScript Core JavaScript (ECMAScript) provides everything you need to accomplish basic programming tasks: variables, operators that act on the variables, statements, and functions that provide reuseable blocks of code to accomplish a task. Objects are also part of ECMAScript, and they are