JavaScript

[ jah-vuh-skript ]

Digital Technology, Trademark.

1. a brand name for a high-level, object-oriented scripting language used especially to create interactive applications running over the internet.

JavaScript

/ ˈdʒɑːvəˌskrɪpt /

noun

1. a scripting language especially applicable to the Internet

Word History and Origins

Origin of JavaScript¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; Java (in the trademarked sense “a programming language”) + script (in the computer sense “an executable section of code”)

Word History and Origins

Origin of JavaScript¹

C20: from Java ²+ script

Example Sentences

For technical SEOs, JavaScript is a hot topic and will continue to be one for quite some time.

From Search Engine Land

Google’s Gary Illyes recommends avoiding JavaScript redirects.

From Search Engine Land

The startup does this by using its own JavaScript-based programming language that automates mixing of things like color, audio, graphics and dynamic type.

From TechCrunch

Review and optimize, minimize, consolidate, and strip as much JavaScript as you can from your site.

From Search Engine Watch

Until September, however, Google wasn’t calling out JavaScript libraries themselves.

From Search Engine Land

All use open-sourced, mass-market code—the earliest run in Flash, the more recent in JavaScript.

From The Daily Beast

AARON KOBLIN: We do a lot of experiments with HTML5, Javascript and WebGL.

From The Daily Beast

JavaScript files on each page, uncompressed and without expires headers.

From The Daily Beast

"There's no reason that should have ever been allowed," says Jones, of Twitter allowing JavaScript in the tweets.

From The Daily Beast