Javascript

Javascript is an Object Oriented programming language common used for client side scripting on Web Applications. Javascript, sometimes abbreviated as js, shouldn't be confused with Java. While they share many similarities in both name and syntax, they are different languages.

Javascript is widely used in the AJAX Library for Visual Dataflex. If you are planning on working with the VDF AJAX library, then it is useful to be familiar with Javascript. Here are a couple of tutorials:

• w3c JavaScript Tutorial
• Object Oriented Javascript Tutorial

Related Articles

• Document Object Model - Used by Javascript to manipulate HTML

Tools

• Prototype - an AJAX Framework
• Firebug - a web development extension for Firefox which includes tools for debugging Javascript

External Links

• Handling Keyboard Shortcuts in Javascript [1]