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Version	Release Date
1	Jun 01, 1997
2	Jun 01, 1998
3	Dec 01, 1998
E4X	Jun 01, 2004
5	Dec 01, 2009
5.1	Jun 01, 2011
6	Jun 01, 2015
7	Jun 14, 2016
8	Jun 27, 2017

JavaScript is a dynamic, weakly-typed language used for client-side as well as server-side scripting.

JavaScript is a commonly referenced implementation of ECMAScript standard.

Topics in this tag often refer to the use of JavaScript within the browser, unless otherwise stated. JavaScript files alone can’t be run directly by the browser; it’s necessary to embed them in an HTML document. If you have some JavaScript code you’d like to try, you can embed it in some placeholder content like this, and save the result as example.html:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Test page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    Inline script (option 1):
    <script>
      // YOUR CODE HERE
    </script>
    External script (option 2):
    <script src="your-code-file.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

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