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Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual
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Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

by David Sawyer McFarland
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1034 pages
38h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Add Interactivity with JavaScript

A normal web page—just regular HTML and CSS—isn’t very responsive. About the only interaction visitors have with the page is clicking a link to load a new page. JavaScript is a programming language that lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and dynamic visual effects. It can also make a web page more responsive to visitors by supplying immediate feedback. For example, a JavaScript-powered shopping cart can instantly display the total cost of your purchase, with tax and shipping, the moment a visitor selects a product to buy; or JavaScript can produce an error message immediately after someone attempts to submit a web form that’s missing information.

JavaScript’s main selling point is immediacy. It lets web pages respond instantly to your visitors’ actions: clicking a link, filling out a form, or merely moving the mouse around the screen. JavaScript doesn’t suffer from the frustrating delay associated with “server-side” interactive programming languages like PHP, which require that a web browser communicate with a remote web server—in other words, JavaScript doesn’t rely on constantly loading and reloading pages. It lets you create pages that look like and respond with the immediacy of a desktop program.

If you’ve visited Google Maps (http://maps.google.com), you’ve seen JavaScript in action. Google Maps lets you zoom in on a map to get a detailed view of streets and zoom out to get a birds-eye view of how to get across town, ...

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