Dezign Devil:
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DeZign Devil Web Developers
At present we have only one person who actively "enjoys" web development (actually, it's a combination of heaven and hell). t3rry is irrestibly drawn towards any kind of web programming ie: creating applications that run from scripts as distinct from the ubiquitous html, xhtml and css that is the mainstay of web pages. Of course web pages don't exist without html, or some variation of it, as the hypertext transfer protocol (http) and the hypertext markup language (html) are what the internet is about: hypertext ... or in common language, links.
Yet the internet can do much more that just link you from page to page; consider the many applications that you utilise whilst using the world wide web. There are logins and logouts, mouseovers (images that change when you put your mouse over them indicating that an event will occur if you click), shopping carts, slideshow scripts, drop down menus, scripts that dynamically change the content of the page or a part of the page, scripts that tally up your purchase price(s) and then convert the total to your local currency, scripts that SECURELY submit data in forms ... the list goes on.
Consider a simple JavaScript that gives you access to another webpage if you enter the correct password. Try it without the password, and finally use the word
another
as your password, then click on the "Enter" button and you'll go to another page. A pretty dull page but the correct password let you go there. Without it you won't get there. The password is NOT in the source code to this page.
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Just a small example of how useful scripting can be to help us on the net. JavaScript, unfortunately, had a bad reputation for quite some time due to being used to do unscrupulous things to unsuspecting persons (fortunately these functions are now blocked) and because it was used for parlour tricks that were merely for the scripter's ego and didn't actually do anything really useful. Those nasty little thingiis that follow your mouse around are a good example. Some people like them .. I don't. A very good one though that I saw recently had a clock with digital hands and all, built right into it. Nevertheless there is a clock on the bottom right hand corner of your screen.
These days JavaScript has "come of age" and had found a large following as it is used for more important things like validating form data to save you a round trip to the server if data is omitted or in the wrong format, and as the foundation of Web II; AJAX (asychronous javascript and xml). PHP, Java, Python, etc, there are various programming languages that have found there way into use on the net. All of them useful.
Developer's links.
Get a glimpse of what web development can do.
