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» This article is about the JavaScript engine. For the animal, see Spider monkey. For the XBRL taxonomy editor, see SpiderMonkey (taxonomy editor)
SpiderMonkey is the code name for the first ever
JavaScript engine, written by
Brendan Eich at
Netscape Communications and later released as open source. SpiderMonkey is now maintained by the
Mozilla Foundation.
Internals
SpiderMonkey is written in
C and contains a
compiler,
interpreter,
decompiler,
garbage collector, and standard classes. It doesn't itself provide host environments such as
Document Object Model (DOM).
SpiderMonkey and its sister engine
Rhino have implemented support for the
ECMAScript for XML (E4X) standard.
Usage
It is intended to be embedded in other applications that provide host environments for JavaScript. The most popular applications are
Mozilla Firefox and the
Mozilla Application Suite/
SeaMonkey, along with
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. SpiderMonkey is also the JavaScript engine for
Yahoo! Widgets (formerly known as "Konfabulator") and
UOX3, an
Ultima Online server emulator. A rather popular and creative utilization of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine is the
open source Sphere suite of applications primarily intended to aid in the design of
role-playing games.
Future
In the future, SpiderMonkey will become integrated with
Tamarin to create
ActionMonkey.
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