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Pros and Cons of Javascript The Author's Background: Ivan Marak is the owner, webmaster and cheif editor of WootHosting.net and has studied online and off-line promotional marketing strategies for the last 5 years.

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Javascript is a scripting language developed by Netscape that interacts with HTML source codes. JavaScript language has certain pros and cons associated with it's use.. Here are the basic reasons whether to use javascript and where to utilize the code.

Pros of JavaScript

JavaScript is for the most part simple to learn and has some practical effects for the webmaster or web designer.

Javascript is client-side meaning they are executed by your browser (the client) and reduces the demand of the website’s server.

JavaScript is very fast because code’s function runs immediately on the users computer instead of having to send information to the server and back to the user for an answer.

JavaScript language having a wide variety of neat tricks displays nicely with other languages like, PHP and can be used in a large assortment of applications.

JavaScript can be inserted into any web page regardless of the file extension (ex: .html .php .shtml etc)

Cons of JavaScript

Because of the wide-open nature of the Internet, security is an important issue. The javascript language executes immediately onto the users' computer and in some unfortunate cases it can be exploited for malicious purposes, like delivering viruses and adding advertising programs onto ones computer (adware). Which is one main reason that users tend to turn off javascript in their Internet options settings from running on their computers while surfing the net.

Search engines can't read javascript navigation links no more then it can read text in a image. Some of them do read javascript on pages. It is, however, next to impossible for a search engine robot spider to follow links generated by javascript. What this means to you as a webmaster is that if your relying on the SE robots to index other pages of your website based on following java links presented on your submitted page (homepage). It will most likely never find the other pages, due to your javascript navigation links. So, ultimately you would have to submit each individual page to the search engines. And if you have tons of pages this could take allot of time. You can create a sitemap page to be submitted to search engines also, which is a good idea anyways.

JavaScript is sometimes read or understood differently with different browsers. When building your website and implementing javascript on your webpages. It is a good idea as standard procedure to test your webpages with several browsers for it’s functionality so you can make adjustments to clean up bad or needless use of scripts and other codes that look a little strange in your browser window.

Conclusion - As my rule of thumb (and I stress MY) a webpage containing several javascripts (particularly your homepage) will do you harm then good with search engines. And if your looking to have most of your webpages indexed by search engines or at least most of the content on them pages read by the robot spiders. I would stay away from using to much javascript. I have found implementing rich plain texts and allot of it, explaining the particular webpage will do you well in the long run with search engines. And isn’t that the main reason of submitting your site to search engines in the first place. Getting them read and indexed!? As a test. For the sake of argument type in a phrase ‘javascript world’ into your browser and click enter. Most the of the first page results return webpages of rich plain text content and plain text navigation links.

Although, using javascript has it’s place on websites like adding security or validation rules to submission forms and other great management tools like event calendars and various media content. Using them on your homepage or utilizing them as main navigation links are a no no in my imaginary book. Use them where it is crucial like further in your website and do away with them when ever possible. But hey that’s me…

Important javascript websites:

javascript.internet.com
javascriptkit.com