| What is "Java Script"?
JavaScript, developed by Netscape, is a smaller language that does not create applets or standalone applications.
In its most common form today, JavaScript resides inside HTML documents, and can provide levels of interactivity far beyond typically flat HTML pages -- without the need for server-based CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programs.
It is important to understand that a Java-enabled browser is not automatically a JavaScript-enabled browser: the two technologies require entirely separate interpreters (licensed from separate companies) to handle the languages.
It is unlikely, however, that future browsers will incorporate one but not the other (plus or minus implementation timetables on various platforms).
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