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TELECOMWORLDWIRE-15 March 2001-REVIEW:Introduction to Interactive Programming on the Internet Using HTML & JavaScript (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com At the bottom end of the scale of books on computer science, 'Internet literary' texts cover topics such as e-mail, news groups and searching the Internet -- stuff that students coming out of high school have already learned. On the upper end of the scale there are programming texts in languages like C++ and Java, but these are aimed at computer science majors. In the middle of the scale, and more suited toward a general audience, is HTML and JavaScript. This book is an introduction towards these two Internet programming languages and aimed for people who want to equip themselves with substantive Internet programming skills. The book aims to provide all of the programming fundamentals that are needed in order to pursue virtually any programming endeavour on the Internet. The first couple of chapters give a brief overview and history of the Internet and the World Wide Web and the distinctions between the two. The book briefly explores the various types of transactions on the Internet at this point, including transferring web pages to browsers for viewing and transferring web pages to web servers so that they are available on the Internet. Lessons 3 through 8 provide an introduction to HTML and web page construction. Rather than cover every single aspect of HTML the book sticks to a subset of HTML that works on virtually any browser.