KJS is KDE's

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that was originally developed for the

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project's

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web browser by

Harri Porten Harri Porten (born 1972) is a software engineer. Porten, a KDE developer and former Trolltech employee, is the CEO of Froglogic, a consultancy company related to Qt development. He lives in Hamburg, Germany. Porten originally wrote the KJS Jav ...

in 2000. On June 13, 2002,

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announced on a mailing list that

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was releasing

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, a framework for

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that was based on KJS. Through the

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project, JavaScriptCore has since evolved into SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine that compiles JavaScript into native

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References

External links

- api.kde.org
KJSEmbed
(allows access to QObjects from JavaScript)
KJSEmbed DocumentationOpenDarwin's JavaScript engine based on KJS
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kjs (Kde) KDE Frameworks KDE Platform JavaScript engines

See also

References

External links