November 2002
Beginner
432 pages
11h 44m
English
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Scripting in Internet Applications
Web browsers such as Internet Explorer support not only HTML pages but also other languages and applications. The Internet Explorer browser is actually little more than an ActiveX container. Therefore, any application that can present itself to the Web browser as an ActiveX control appears inside the Web browser.
In addition to HTML, ActiveX controls, and Java programs that you'll learn about in Chapter 20, “Java Programming,” Web browsers can also support special scripting languages called JavaScript and VBScript. These special scripting languages enable you to embed controlling code inside HTML code that interacts with and reacts to other objects on the Web page. Whereas JavaScript is similar to the Java language, ...