Questions that are specific to Microsoft's JScript may also be appropriately asked at: microsoft.public.scripting.jscript

Java-Script was developed by Netscape in the early days of the browser wars. Microsoft responded by developing JScript. The language was standardized as ECMA-262 in 1998. Today, JScript is more commonly used in Active Server Pages as an alternative to VBScript. Web hosting is your space on a web server in which all your files for your website are stored.

No, Mozilla uses the scripting capabilities of Gecko which has no support for languages written around the ActiveScript mechanism. In theory Mozilla's XPConnect might allow such languages to be supported one day, but not at the moment.

The syntax is similar, although with a completely different object model. Client-side JavaScript is used with a object model that is based on the browser model (document, frames, forms, hyperlinks etc.) whereas the WAP device object model is based on cards and decks, so objects will be tailored around these facilities instead. WMLScript is based on ECMAScript, which is an attempt to standardise the JavaScript language.

Client-side JavaScript and JScript are browser-specific scripting languages, and are therefore not suited to WAP applications. However, server-side JavaScript is perfect for WAP development since it can integrate with back-end databases (using ODBC, and can even be mixed with environments such as ASP).

JavaScript is a cross-platform, interpretted, object-oriented language originally designed for client-side web scripting. The elements of web pages can be manipulated via JavaScript as objects specified by the Document Object Model (DOM). This enables dynamic effects like image roll-overs and interactive effects like pages that change in response to user input without being reloaded from the server. LiveScript was Netscape's initial pre-release name for JavaScript.

The most common cause of JScript errors is when you access MSN Autos from another Web site that puts MSN Autos "in a window." To avoid this problem, go to MSN Autos directly from http://autos.msn.com. All vehicle specification data (including but not limited to: year, make, model, trim/style, options/features, color, performance/handling, mileage, VIN number, description, location, availability, photographs, recalls, maintenance schedules, etc.

This is caused by a Java vertual machine's web proxy detecting bug. This happens when your default web browser uses "automatic configuration script" as the proxy setting, and the Java's Network Proxy setting is "uses browser setting". To solve this problem, change Java Web Start's Network Proxy setting to "Use proxy server" and fill in the proxy server information directly.