Do away with bothersome CGI scripting with Javascript and Netscape Navigator 2.0
Do away with bothersome CGI scripting with Javascript and Netscape Navigator 2.0 |
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The most dramatic changes to come to the world of Internet browsers since the very first NCSA Mosaic program was introduced are JavaScript and Java. Netscape brings the first two platform-independent development languages for the Internet to every desktop in the new Navigator 2.0. By incorporating the JavaScript and Java run-time engines into their widely popular Web browser, Netscape has enabled application and Web page developers to write to a single Java specification that will run on almost all the platforms.
As a Web developer, you want to get your site up to speed with the newest technology as soon as possible. This book takes you through both of these exciting and powerful new languages and gives you the advantage of creating dynamic and interactive Web pages immediately. This is possible because JavaScript is built upon the Java language, and the two use similar syntax. For you, this means that after you have learned JavaScript, picking up Java will be much easier.
You can learn JavaScript first and use it to begin developing interactive dynamic sites without delay. At the same time, the Java sections of the book take advantage of your JavaScript knowledge and use it to teach you Java by pointing out similarities and differences between the languages. Then, when you have finished Java, you can begin to incorporate Java applets into your Web pages to create a total site package for dynamic interaction using JavaScript or Java wherever the two are appropriate to your needs.
This book was written to lead you through the JavaScript and Java programming languages to provide you with the skills you need to develop scripts and applets for your Web pages. If you are a Web page developer wanting to move your sites tip to the full capability these languages provide, this book teaches you how to program JavaScript into your pages to how them to interact with the user and their client-side environment. By moving all of your scripting to the client machine, you can do away with bothersome CGI scripting, which means maintaining not only your Web documents, but also the program files and directory structure on the server machine.
With JavaScript, you can program into a single document, encapsulating your entire document into a single point of maintenance. If you want to change something, you can simply load up your editor and change it just like any other HTML document. When you have learned the intricacies of JavaScript, you can take your knowledge and move on to the more complicated, but more powerful, world of Java applets.
If you are an experienced programmer wanting to learn about these two new languages that you undoubtedly hear about, then this book will guide you through these languages and point out comparisons to and differences from other languages such as Cl C++. Because Java and JavaScript are loosely based upon the C++ language, you should have no problems getting up to speed quickly and moving through both sections on Java and JavaScript allowing you to start writing programs as soon as possible.
If you already know only a little bit, or have done any programming in JavaScript or Java, then this book can provide you with a single handy reference to both of these languages. The special reference section in the back of the book should prove especially helpful when you are writing out that long script and can't remember the name of a method or the arguments it takes.
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