JavaScript 1.1 in a Week

EBook Description: The World Wide Web has come a long way since its days as a modest hypertext system used by a few scientists to share information on the Internet. Today the World Wide Web is the medium of information exchange for millions of people. They are sharing text, video, sound, and data, and increasingly, they are trying to make their Web pages interactive. Businesses are trying to sell their products, artists are producing new forms of interactive art, and programmers are producing program development aids-all delivered via the World Wide Web and accessed from inside everyday Web browser applications.

Based on the enormous amount of press Java is getting and the amount of excitement it has generated, you may get the impression that Java will save the world-or at least solve all the problems of the Internet. Not so. Java's hype has run far ahead of its capabilities, and while Java is indeed new and interesting, it really is another programming language with which you write programs that run on the Internet. In this respect, Java is closer to popular programming languages such as C, C++, Visual Basic, or Pascal, than it is to a page description language such as HTML, or a very simple scripting language such as JavaScript.

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Like any human language, Java provides a way to express concepts. If successful, this medium of expression will be significantly easier and more flexible than the alternatives as problems grow larger and more complex.

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Java Unleashed

World Wide Web had transformed the online world. Through a system of hypertext, users of the Web were able to select and view information from all over the world. However, while this system of hypertext gave users a high degree of selectivity over the information they chose to view, their level of interactivity with that information was low. Hypermedia had opened up many options for new kinds of sensory input a user might receive, including access to graphics, text, or even videos. However, the Web lacked true interactivity�real-time, dynamic, and visual interaction between the user and application.

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Developing Professional Java Applets

Java is frequently described as a programming language for the Internet. This reference mainly alludes to Java's ability to be executed as an applet, which is a program that runs inside a Java-enabled World Wide Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator 2.0 or HotJava. Applets naturally function as small programs that can enhance your Web page. This stems from Java's structure as a distributed language and its corresponding ability to load small pieces of code as needed. In the short run, programmers will use Java to add small snippets of code, such as animations, to enhance a Web page experience.

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JavaScript Essentials

Before JavaScript was created, a typical web browsing experience consisted largely of displaying static pages of information. Any type of user interaction with a web page usually involved the browser sending information back to the web server where some type of server based script or other program would validate the user's data input. The server would then send back either a static error page if the user had entered invalid data or, assuming successful validation, return a static page to the web browser containing the results of the transaction. In addition, the lack of a mechanism to implement dynamic web page content and behavior dictated that an entirely new web page be loaded in order to display new information.

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