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===Adoption by Microsoft===

JavaScript very quickly gained widespread success as a client-side scripting language for web pages.

[[Microsoft]] introduced JavaScript support in its own web browser, [[Internet Explorer]], in version 3.0, released in August 1996.<ref name="popularity">{{cite web|url=http://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/ |title=Popularity |author=Brendan Eich |date=3 April 2008 |accessdate=2012-01-19}}</ref>{{fvFailed verification|date=April 2012}}

Microsoft's webserver, [[Internet Information Server]], introduced support for server-side scripting in JavaScript with release 3.0 (1996).

Microsoft started to promote webpage scripting using the umbrella term [[Dynamic HTML]].

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*{{cite book |last=Harris |first=Andy |title=JavaScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner |year=2001 |publisher=Premier Press |isbn=0-7615-3410-5}}

*{{cite book |last=Heinle |first=Nick |coauthors=Koman, Richard |title=Designing with JavaScript |year=1997 |publisher=O'Reilly & Associates |isbn=1-56592-300-6}}

*{{cite book |last=McDuffie |first=Tina Spain |title=JavaScript Concepts & Techniques: Programming Interactive Web Sites |year=2003 |publisher=Franklin, Beedle & Associates |isbn=1-887887902-9026969-4}}

*{{cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Nigel |title=Rapid Application Development with Mozilla |year=2003 |publisher=Prentice Hall Professional Technical References |isbn=0-13-142343-6}}

*{{cite book |last=Powell |first=Thomas A. |coauthors=Schneider, Fritz |title=JavaScript: The Complete Reference |year=2001 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Companies |isbn=0-07-219127-9}}