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| author = [[Harri Porten]]
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| released = {{Start date|2000}}
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| genre = [[JavaScript engine]]
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| website = [http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/JavaScript JavaScript (ECMAScript)]
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'''KJS''' is [[KDE]]'s [[ECMAScript]]-[[JavaScript engine]] that was originally developed for the [[KDE]] project's [[Konqueror]] web browser by [[Harri Porten]] in 2000.
On June 13, 2002, [[Maciej Stachowiak]] announced on a mailing list that [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] was releasing [[WebKit#JavaScriptCore|JavaScriptCore]], a framework for [[Mac OS X]] that was based on KJS.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070310215550/www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/kde-darwin/2002-June/000034.html kde-darwin mailing list, June 2002]</ref> Through the WebKit project, JavaScriptCore has since evolved into SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine that compiles JavaScript into native machine code.
==References==
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== External links ==
<!-- *[http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/js/ JavaScript (ECMAScript)] - kde.org -->
*[http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kjs/html/ KJS (KDE JavaScript/EcmaScript Engine)] - api.kde.org
*[http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kjsembed/html/ KJSEmbed] (allows access to QObjects from JavaScript)
*[http://xmelegance.org/kjsembed/ KJSEmbed Documentation]
*[http://webkit.org/projects/javascript OpenDarwin's Javascript engine based on KJS]
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