Chapter 5 Web Applications with jQuery and Backbone.js
JavaScript was born in the browser. From its birth in 1995 to the turn of the century, it was primarily used to “enhance” websites with special effects and clunky interactive features, often to their detriment. But JavaScript in the browser came into its own as a software development platform when Google launched Gmail, proving that a practical and feature-rich application could live on the Web with no need for Flash or other proprietary plugins.
Gmail’s success inspired intense interest in the Web as an app platform, but developers were stymied by the browser’s clunky APIs, made worse by inconsistencies (often undocumented) from one browser to another. Then, in 2006, 22-year-old John ...
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