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For another really cool example of what you can do with JavaScript, click here.

Not to mention the well-known Javascript Lemmings.

Hey, those little guys are pretty tricky!

Is it just me or do all the pages refresh every time you do anything? I've been doing some internal applications in DHTML lately and have learned the amount of stuff DHTML can do (even if you avoid some of the more browser specific stuff). There's little reason to refresh the page for every event.

If you want to see what DHTML can *really* do. Look no further than DHTML Lemmings. It's an entirely self-contained application that can run on your local hard drive without the support of a server. The current level is cookied so that you don't have to start over when you close your browser. All parameter handling is done by parsing the URL with Javascript. In other words, there is ZERO need for a server.

Less need for a server translates to less strain on the server. Less strain on the server means that your applications will perform faster for both the client and your company.

Lemmings on the web ...

http://193.151.73.87/games/lemmings/

For some applications, such as the Lemmings Clone, or the calculator, or a number of others, there's no real reason to save what one had created with the program, as the output is only immediately important. The application is used a few times, and the outputs are used immediately, or within a few hours.

For other online applications, such as online office applications, or the like, the need to save a document (or other work) is manifestly important. Currently, documents can be saved on the computer on which one works, but then one still requires a storage medium to cart around in order to keep the document with the person during travel. Which means that the online office application is a good way to save money, or to be able to create office documents on a computer without office applications (word processors, spreadsheets, etc.), but a person will likely use a word processor which is located on the computer if one is present.

However, with remote storage, online applications could begin to take off as the primary application, replacing their installed counterparts: the same document could be edited in the same word processor on two (or fifteen) different computers, reducing the number of people who need to use and carry laptops. In addition, if and when online office applications appear in great numbers for mobile devices, e.g. the Palm or the Zaurus, an online office application will make even more sense in terms of storage management, as no local application is needed, and the document can be stored off the palmtop somewhere else, and be edited from a desktop at work or home, as well as the palmtop on the road.

Stuff Minesweeper! How about an online replacement for Lemmings!

They simply cannot be beat, especially the special Christmas version with bouncing Santa hats....

Lemmings
3D lemmings
DHTML Lemmings