JScript
JScript was Microsoft's proprietary implementation of the ECMAScript language standard, primarily used in its Internet Explorer web browser and other Microsoft technologies like Active Server Pages (ASP) and Windows Script Host (WSH). It offered client-side scripting for dynamic web pages and…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 1996
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- JScript was created to enable dynamic and interactive content within web pages rendered by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and to provide a versatile scripting language for the Windows platform, solving the problem of static web experiences and giving Microsoft a proprietary scripting solution akin to Netscape's JavaScript.
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows (Internet Explorer, Windows Script Host, IIS with ASP), Other Microsoft applications supporting scripting
Related technologies
Notable users
- Microsoft (internal applications, web services built with classic ASP)
- Organizations maintaining legacy web applications on Internet Explorer