The rise of JavaScript and HTML5
The role of JavaScript has shifted significantly from a few simple client routines to a dominant language to create and manage web user interfaces. The programming technique has moved towards object-oriented with the introduction of function object, prototype, and closure. This was driven by a group of pioneers such as Douglas Crockford, who was responsible for transforming the language to educate and make JavaScript a better language with his book JavaScript: The Good Parts, O'Reilly Media / Yahoo Press Others include Sam Stephenson, creator of the Prototype JavaScript library (http://www.prototypejs.org), and John Resig, creator of the JQuery library (http://jquery.com), who brought JavaScript into a framework ...
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