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The Javascript® Guide documents provide useful information about working with Javascript pertaining to the design and development of web pages.

DOM
Events
Methods
Properties
Dialogs
Javascript vs. JScript

If you're planning to incorporate Javascript® into the client-side portion of a website, a series of design issues should be considered. It's important to recognize support for Javascript® is web browser versions, releases, manufacture and client computer platform specific. Since so many different versions of web browsers are in use today testing is strongly recommended on the most common computer platforms (Windows® (95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000), Macintosh® (OS 9 & OS X) & Linux) using versions 3.x (not commonly in use), 4.x (common for Netscape), 5.x (common for Microsoft Internet Explorer) and newer to assure compatibility. There are coding techniques that can be used to provide the most advanced features of Javascript® while at the same time preventing problems when encountered by older non-supporting browsers.

NOTE: Refer to W3C's (World Wide Web Consortium) "Intrinsics" (Chapter 18 - Scripts) in the most current HTML approved standard for aspects specific to web device/browser scripting as it pertains to HTML elements. (Javascript® is a registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corp.; JScript® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.)