However, it is my conviction that an HTML document is first and foremost a document, and that it should be able to exist independantly as a document if you remove all of the presentation and special effects. Using JavaScript to create powerful navigation is OK, as long as you have good old-fashioned links as well. Using JavaScript to create presentation effects such as fade-ins and scrolling text is OK, as long as the document can be displayed as a plain old document too. What you should never do on the Web is create a Web page or a set of Web pages that rely on scripts to be useful. Even if you ignore the ethics of creating broken Web pages, technologies such as Java and ActiveX are much more suited to creating Web-based applications than HTML with JavaScript, and you will find that it's a lot easier to use them.
Scripts are nice, but make sure they do non-essential things.
Above all, make sure all of the information available in your document is available even if you remove all scripts. Moral warnings aside, let's get down to the actual nitty-gritty. Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated All Rights Reserved.