There are many types of Java, including Javascript and Java
applets. They are not the same thing.
What is JavaScript?
Javascript is an Object Oriented Scripting language that was originally developed by Netscape Communications to enhance Web page interactivity in their own browser software. Using JavaScript, Web designers can provide scroll bars, enhanced navigational elements, password protection, calculators, clocks, counters, slide shows and a host of other useful features not available with straight HTML.
Due to its overwhelming popularity, JavaScript was adopted by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser software, too, (the predominant browser software on the market today) and as such, has become a prolific multi-purpose Web scripting tool.
With that said, here are some useful tips and free resources:
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Javascript Code Encrypter
All too often it is easy for other people to steal your Javascript code.
This Javascript Code Encrypter
will help prevent that by scrambling (encrypting) your code so it can't work if
it is stolen. Having a tool to protect your code from theft would seem to be our
first order of business.
Colorful Drop Down Menu Maker
Javascript is not so much an end in itself as a tool to do
other things, unlike Flash - which may be pretty to look at if you can
wait long enough for it to show up on your monitor, but does little, if
anything, else.
In this example, Java has been used to
create a drop-down menu from the Colorful Drop Down Menu Maker.
Now you'll notice it does indeed "drop down" - but it doesn't
DO anything! You click the links and you don't GO anywhere!
I suspect it's because the links go directly
to the pages within the web folders rather than first going all the way
back to the Internet (http://www......) and then coming back - sort of
like going down the elevator and across the street and then back again
just to go across the hall.
There may be a lesson here for all web site
creators, even you if you want to do-it-yourself. FIRST, all your pages
have to already be uploaded to your server, then you must insert the
complete path into your links. One of the quirks of Javascript, perhaps?
Typically, if I want to link to a photo in
another folder, I only have to go to that folder, not to California and
then back to the folder (down the elevator, across the street, back
across the street again and back up the elevator to that room across the
hall).
This means you often can't write Javascript
(for menus like this, for example) on the fly as you create your site.
First you have to create it, then upload it, then go back and start all
over.
I redid the links, copied and pasted them
directly into the browser and - yahoo! - the pages opened. But they do
NOT open from the menu above when I view this page in the same browser.
And this was supposed to be a simple
copy-and-paste routine!
