This week we created interactive websites using the power of JavaScript. As I understand it, JavaScript is a lightweight programming language that can be used to code programs to run on the server side as well as run on the client side. However, my experience with JavaScript is that is used in handling dynamic content on the client side that HTML alone cannot handle. JavaScript can be used to display dynamic web styles and manipulate web content on the fly.
Above all, for a web site to be useful today there needs to be an efficient way to "persist" the data and access that data on the fly. JavaScript is one way of doing this; it has been around for a while and it is freely available without the requirement of setting up development environment with toolkits or compilers like those used in Java’s applets and servlets, Microsoft’s ASPs, and so on. And JavaScript’s longevity means that it has been tried and proven to be a reliable web programming language.
My ideal site in the use of JavaScript would be a search engine that sorts academic results and groups them into major categories or subjects e.g. sociology, philosophy, economics, mathematics, and so on. That would help in web research.
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