Advanced JavaScript Techniques

• Discover how client-side JavaScript differs from server-side JavaScript. Chapter 1, Server JavaScript and Client JavaScript
  
  
• Understand the Object-Oriented nature of JavaScript. Chapter 3, Object-oriented programming
  
  
• Learn to use the functions of the Navigator Object Tree. Chapter 5, The Navigator Object Tree
  
  
• See how event handlers can programmatically intercept document, form, anchor, image, and window event messages. Chapter 6, The Netscape Navigator Event Model
  
  
• Extend client JavaScript to provide interactivity with forms without having to send the form's content to the server. Chapter 7, The <FORM> Tag
  
  
• Combine frames with JavaScript to create sophisticated Web-based interfaces and applications. Chapter 8, The frame Object
  
  
• Use cookies to maintain a client-side state throughout a Web-based application. Chapter 9, Cookie Basics
  
  
• Develop a collapsible menu manager application using cookies and frames. Chapter 10, Creating a Menu Manager
  
  
• Discover how LiveWire can provide both site management and application development facilities, as well as replace the need for CGI programming. Chapter 11, LiveWire Features
  
  
• Implement a LiveWire authentication program that decides whether to provide access to a site based on the client's IP address. Chapter13, IP-based authentication
  
  
• Find out how Java differs from JavaScript and when to use each. Chapter 14, What Is Java All About?
  
  
• Use LiveConnect to control applets and plug-ins from JavaScript, and access JavaScript from applets. Chapter 15, Accessing properties and methods of an Applet
  
  
• Learn the details of plug-ins and how to work with them in JavaScript. Chapter 16, What are plug-ins?
  
  
• Deploy multi-lingual sites without complex scripting at the client or server end. Chapter 17, The scripts
  
  
• Build a simple solitaire card game as an example of interactive forms. , The Game
  
  
• Develop an application that calls to the various search engines and displays the results in multiple frames of the same window. Chapter 19, The Search Engine Interface requirements
  
  
• Learn the differences between Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Chapter 21, Overview of Internet Explorer
  
  
• Learn to use Internet Explorer Objects within JavaScript. Chapter 22, Including Scripts in Web pages in Explorer
  
  
• Discover how VBScript is similar to and yet different from JavaScript. Chapter 23, Basic VBScript Concepts
  
  
• Find out about ActiveX controls and their place in the Internet Explorer framework. Chapter 24, An Introduction to ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Use the ActiveX Control Pad to develop Web pages that include HTML Layouts and ActiveX Objects as well as scripts. Chapter 25, ActiveX Control Pad Basics