"JavaScript" is primarily, of course, the language which Tcl's javascript module targets. [Say a few words on JavaScript as a language.]
Zarutian 28. janúar 2007: Glad to oblige. Javascript is an derivative of ECMAscript and is a cousin to ActionScript which is used in Adobe (former Macromedia) Flash. Javascript is heavily object oriented prototype based system rather than class based. And is therefore similar to Lua in that regard that objects can obtain new methods and member variables. Ajax is actually Javascript code that relies heavily on XMLPostRequest component and its callbacks. More about javascript I dont know.
"Introduction to JavaScript" [L1 ] is a March 2006 ETech tutorial.
JavaScript and Tcl have a special relation: both at Sun and Netscape (Mosaic, originally), the two were in strategic competition. Roger Binns [[email protected]] originally embedded a Tcl interpreter in the Mosaic browser; "details are in the proceedings of the 2nd WWW [C]onference". He writes about this that, "The audience were in awe of a demo that printed an entire book based on following the rel links in web page headers, got everything in the right order, loaded the pages and printed".
Netscape chose JavaScript, though.
See also Tcl in Javascript
There is also a module in the tcllib library of Tcl code. Its purpose is to aid developers in generating HTML and JavaScript code. Related modules are ncgi and html.
Documentation can be found at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/javascript.html .
Examples of use of this code are encouraged.