


Time showed, however, that people wanted to do much more with it.Ī year after its release in 1995 Netscape took JavaScript to ECMA, a standards organization, to create a standard for JavaScript. It was meant to be a simple scripting language for the Web, one that could be used for animations, preliminary form checks and dynamic pages.

As we explained in detail in our JavaScript history piece, JavaScript was originally conceived as a "glue" programming language for designers and amateur programmers.
