Originally posted by Jesper Young:
Netscape invented JavaScript long ago and implemented it in their Netscape browser - JavaScript is not an invention from Sun.
If I remember correctly... Netscape invented LiveScript. Then Sun (I think it was Bill Joy) and Netscape wanted to leverage LiveScript. So they worked together to change LiveScript -- both to make it look like Java and to get it better integration with Java
applets.
The resulting language was renamed to JavaScript.
Henry