JavaScript Miscellaneous Articles

Synopsis: How to use JavaScript to control sound only Flash movies to add interactive sound to a conventional web site without the need for Flash graphics.

Synopsis: Ryan Detert runs through the fundamentals of JavaScript.

Techniques: Global and local variables, Arrays, for loops, the Trinary Operator, Modulus, document.write(), Casting, Precedence, images

Synopsis: Here is something novel: using JavaScript to make your web experience more enjoyable, when you decide, and with what you want to do - rather than site specific JavaScript code that performs what the web author wants to do. In this article Martin Webb describes the basics behind bookmarklets.

Techniques: JavaScript, Bookmarks, Favorites, JavaScript URLS, links, javascript:, bookmarklets, void, frames

Synopsis: The following question was posed by a visitor to irt.org:

Why bother with Javascript, which assumes someone has a browser capable of using it, when you can do the same thing in your cgi?

- this article covers the ensuing conversation by the team at irt.org

Techniques: JavaScript, client side processing, HTML, cgi, server side processing, security

Synopsis: Keith Drakard takes you through the various steps needed to make a JavaScript solitaire game.

Techniques: Game, images, image src, Image(), image replacement, setTimeout, solitaire

Synopsis: Written by Martin Webb. When you want to create a JavaScript Midi Hifi system that will enable midi or wav files to be played as if they were a on a CD player. This article which appears on Developer.com includes complete play, stop and pause control, and single play, cycle play and random play. You can even view the time played, time remaining, track time and total time.

Techniques: Netscape LiveConnect, LiveAudio, EMBED, midi, wav, MASTERSOUND, object arrays

Synopsis: A link up with Michael Bednareks' SiteCreator Channel has been arranged. There are currently five JavaScript Beginner Articles available on Michael Bednareks' SiteCreator Channel. If you find the existing articles hard to follow then these will be just the thing for you.

Techniques: Beginners introduction to JavaScript, functions, objects, forms

Synopsis: Have you got files on your web space that people can download? Do you want to count how many times they are downloaded? This article discusses how to keep count of how many times a file is downloaded. Using a combination of image or floating frame replacement, this utility loads a CGI image to increment a counter. You obviously need to have a CGI image counter for this to work - most people do - either from your ISP or from a third party.

Techniques: Images, files, forms, counters, swapping images, floating frames,

Synopsis: Keith Drakard takes you through the various steps needed to make a JavaScript "Simple Simon" game.

Techniques: Game, images, image src, Image(), image replacement, setTimeout, random numbers, Math, ceil

Synopsis: Summary of the more useful online JavaScript and JavaScript related resources

Techniques: documents, tutorials, references

Synopsis: How to add simple forward and back navigation between documents

Techniques: location, href, indexOf, substring, comments

Synopsis: Read the links[] array of another frame.

Techniques: Netscape, frames, links[], array, href, onLoad

Synopsis: Automatically highlighting articles as NEW!, and then automatically unhighlighting them later.

Techniques: Date object, Date.UTC, function return

Synopsis: Describes how to overload the arguments of a JavaScript function.

Techniques: JavaScript, function, array, arguments, elements

Synopsis: JavaScripts not worthy of their own page.

Techniques: Frames, Mailto, Dates