How can JavaScript make a Web site easier to use?
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JavaScript's greatest potential gift to a Web site is that scripts can make the page more immediately interactive, that is, interactive without having to submit every little thing to the server for a server program to re-render the page and send it back to the client. For example, consider a top-level navigation panel that has, say, six primary image map links into subsections of the Web site. With only a little bit of scripting, each map area can be instructed to pop up a more detailed list of links to the contents within a subsection whenever the user rolls the cursor atop a map area. With the help of that pop up list of links, the user with a scrip table browser can bypass one intermediate menu page. The user without a scrip table browser (or who has disabled JavaScript) will have to drill down through a more traditional and time-consuming path to the desired content.
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