Scripting Languages

• Browsers added scripting and executable code to their pages, to help reduce the client to server interactions, as well as to provide more responsive and dynamic environments for users. Under Netscape, this was JavaScript, and under IE this was VBScript. (Both now adhere to ECMA Script, which is a variant of JavaScript.) Scripting has introduced a variety of security problems over time, but these will be addressed in the section on mobile code.

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