Javascript, a demonstration of power

Nowadays Javascript is becoming very important in the web development. Whether to exchange information with the server, or for visual effects or animations without using Flash.

It is a language that has always been there, that some of us used in the former versions of IE and lasts ones of NS to animate layers of menus, but not paying all the attention it deserved.

Actually you can find a lot of articles talking about its object model … showing us that maybe it wasn´t as ‘dirty’ as it seemed, but it was always a respectable language.

A great blog, I found recently, where man can read in spanish about Javascript in a way it will make you change your mind is: EtnaSoft.

Its power, that seemed limited because it has to run inside a browser, it’s getting bigger with the use of Webworkers, Websockets, etc. and event gets out of the browser when come up ideas like NodeJS that uses the power of the Javascript V8 engine (Chrome) to build up a server.

His versatility is also demonstrated with projects such as:

· Library to handle ZIP files with Javascript.
· Library to encode JPG files with Javascript.
· Library to render PDF files with Javascript
· Library to play MP3 files with Javascript
· Audio Codecs