Meet JavaScript - a scripting language parallel to AppleScript, VBScript and Unix's shell scripting languages, designed by Netscape to be used in tandem with HTML (and XHTML) to deliver more dynamic web pages. Although analogous to full-fledged programming languages such as C, C++ and Java, JavaScript does not call for the understanding of the underlying structure of the program - thus constrained in a manner, yet functional and widely used.

More than ten years old, Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (RSS) has managed to catch the fancy of various net users only recently. Everybody is realizing the far-fetching advantages that may accrue by using RSS.  So much so that a nominal section of net users have neglected their browsers in favor of the RSS feeds.