Server-Side and Client-Side Web Scripting

This chapter provides introductions and tutorial examples on server-side and client-side Web scripting. Topics include Web scripting processing architecture overview; processing steps of server-side and client-side scripting; event handling scripts; script code returns new script code.

Web Scripting Architecture Overview

Server-Side Scripting Overview

Client-Side Scripts for Document Updating

Client-Side Scripts for Event Handling

Client-Side Scripting Processed Multiple Times

New Script Resulted from Two Original Scripts

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Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction to JavaScript

 ECMAScript Language Specification and JavaScript Dialects

 Data Types, Variables and Expressions

 Flow Control Statements

 Creating, Accessing, and Manipulating Arrays

 Defining and Calling Functions

 Web Browser Supporting JavaScript

Server-Side and Client-Side Web Scripting

 Introduction to Objects

 Defining Your Own Object Types

 Inheritance of Properties and Methods through the Prototype Object Chain

 'jrunscript' - JavaScript Shell Command from JDK

 Using Functions as "Function" Objects

 Introduction to Built-in Object Types

 W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) Specifications

 AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)

 References

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