It works nicely with traditional software design languages and includes unique features that make it distinct from them. With its rapid evolution in the tech world, JavaScript has become the cornerstone of modern web development. JavaScript is a “client-side” scripting language that is primarily used to create and add all kinds of dynamic interactions to web pages. In addition to this, we’ll also walk you through what JavaScript is, what JavaScript is used for and what you can actually do with JavaScript. We’ve written this guide to walk you through activating JavaScript in six of the most commonly used browsers.
So, if you have disabled JavaScript in your browser and now wish to enable it, we are here to help. Besides, there are also specific ways that you can disable JavaScript on a per-site basis, instead of turning it off completely. However, the good news here is that JavaScript is quite simple to activate. With JavaScript disabled, your browser will be unable to run or show interactive elements like display ads, animations or audio.
Most popular websites are JavaScript based, which means they make use of JavaScript to run interactive features that provide an enjoyable user experience. JavaScript is a wonderful technology to use on the web, and disabling it for all websites on your browser is never recommended. Today, JavaScript has become so indispensable to the web that most internet browsers implement a dedicated engine just to run it.
This will install web browser plugin based on OpenJDK 7 and IcedTea.This is an exciting time, as the usage of JavaScript has changed from a limited knowledge subject to a significant web development skill over the past few years. In a Debian like system, just run this as root: It is very easy to install Java plugin in your browser, using package icedtea-7-plugin. If you have installed Firefox as me (downloaded from Mozilla and just extracted somewhere and using a different profile in order to use Firefox and Iceweasel concurrently), then this Firefox will use this plugin too. You can do it with one command, but I split them to two separate commands to be more readable. If you have installed any of these, then you have to locate the location of the required library (for Oracle JRE is the “libnpjp2.so” file) and create a symbolic link to this.ġ) Create “plugins” directory for Mozilla: $> mkdir /home/myuser/.mozilla/pluginsĢ) Create library symbolic link: $> ln -s /opt/myjdks/jdk/jdk1.6.0_26/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /home/myuser/.mozilla/plugins/Īs you can see I use Oracle JDK 6 (1.6.0_26), which I have downloaded from Oracle and just extracted to directory “/opt/myjdks/”. This could be provided by SUN (now Oracle) JRE 6 or 7, or OpendJDK 6 or 7. If you want to enable Java plugin for all those three browsers, then there is a single action that can do the work for you.įirst of all you have to install a JRE, in order to have a VM environment for your browser. I am fan of Debian GNU/Linux wheezy and I am using three different browser’s ( Iceweasel, Firefox, Chrome) for various reasons.