But like the visa advertisement that says “They don’t take American Express”, “Dreamhost doesn’t take Java”.
Java didn’t make it big on browsers. Javascript (no relationship with Java) is the defacto standard that all browsers support.
Javascript is an interpreted, dynamic typed language with powerful features not available in mainstream languages: functions are first class (they can be passed around like any other object); it has associative arrays and closures. However, because [...]