Clientside JavaScript:

Endlessly Useful (& Simplified) Scripts
for Getting Through to the Internet User
These web pages and the JavaScript scripts they contain have been crafted as simply as possible, so that you might more easily sort out their structures. They have been tested succesfully with both Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0. This means they should operate flawlessly on most computers.

Their purpose is primarily interpretive; information contained within them is presented to the viewer in a natural query-response manner as the they select from an assortment of links. Since everything is processed on the user's computer--response-time is immediate, and Internet-traffic and server-activity are minimal.

  1. True-False Quiz

    The true-false quiz decides whether the user has answered "yes" or "true" to any of a series of questions. It reports the results to the user and launches an event if the answer to any of the questions is "Yes".

    Place both of these files in the same directory and run from the first file.

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  2. Questions and Answers (form version)

    This is a script that shows answers to any of a series of questions in a Form "Textarea".

    This is a single-file script.

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  3. Questions and Answers (frame version)

    This is a script that shows answers to a any of a series of questions in a different frame.

    Place all three of these files in the same directory, and run from the first file

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  4. Picture and label (frame version)

    This is a script that displays information about any section of an imagemap in a separate frame

    Place all four of these files in the same directory, and run from the first file

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  5. Picture and label (Form-Textarea version)

    This is a script that displays information about any section of an imagemap in a textarea of the same document.

    This is a single-file (plus JPEG) script.

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JavaScript, the scripting language of the Web, is now being used by more than 3.5 Million pages on the Internet. According to a comprehensive Web search of media types conducted using Wired's HotBot search engine April 9, 1998, content developers have published far more Web pages that use JavaScript than those containing proprietary scripting technologies such as ActiveX (98,444) or VBScript (53,072). Since its introduction by Netscape in 1995, more than 175 companies have licensed JavaScript for inclusion in their Internet software tools, helping popularize the scripting language as one of the de facto standards for Internet content developers.
-----press release, 4/14/1998, Netscape Rallies Content Community Around Leading Web Development Technologies Of Today and Tomorrow - JavaScript, XML and RDF
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