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There are three ways that you can pass data between web pages using JavaScript and this article shows you how each of the three methods works.

• using a cookie
• using frames
• or on the end of the URL as a querystring

There are of course other ways to pass information between pages using server side processing such as posting the data between pages or using a session but these require server side processing that some web sites may not available. Noe that you can POST data using JavaScript but you need server side processing in order to read it back.

Passing Information Between Pages

Where you don’t have access to use server side processing to place random content into your web page you can use JavaScript to do it for you.

Displaying “Random” Text or Images

The second of the two New Rider books I received is on web standards. This book covers the reasons for applying web standards to your page, how to apply standards to your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and server side processing, as well as containing a couple of case studies that show how standards are applied in practice and how for a hugely popular web site where it may be necessary to break with the standards for efficiency reasons, how to determin when such an action is actually appropriate.

Adapting to Web Standards