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Dear subscriber, Following your request to receive notification when the JavaScript 'No Content' Web site http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/ has been updated, here is the latest newsletter. In This Edition: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recent Additions Updated FAQs The SiteCreator Channel Free Downloads The Bookstore Beta Tester Program Sponsorship The Future Recent Additions: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pret-a-Lecture - Saturday 2nd May 1998 http://btinternet.com/~martin.webb/js082/index.html Have you ever wanted to display a different page in another language for non-English visitors to your site? This article explains how, in Netscape Navigator 4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, you can trap which language the visitors browser is using and then show them either a pre-translated version of your page. For Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 the article also shows how to use page transitions to dissolve a document into the translated document. MathML - What's in it for us - Saturday 2nd May 1998 http://btinternet.com/~martin.webb/js081/index.html Guest Author Janus Boye takes a look at MathML a new W3C Recommendation and explains why we might want to use it on our web pages. Advanced mailto: techniques - Saturday 25th April 1998 http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/js080/index.html This article describes advance uses of the mailto: protocol. It describes five working examples that you can use for your own purposes: i) using a link, ii) To: Cc: and Bcc:, iii) using a form, iv) multiple mailing using a form. Java Applets #4 - Saturday 25th April 1998 http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/js079/index.html Guest Author Dr. Tarique Sani concludes the Java series on the KTN applet. Includes the complete source code for the KTN applet. The Common Gateway Interface - Saturday 18th April 1998 http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/js078/index.html Guest Author Jason Nugent continues with the new series of articles on CGI scripting. Keeping Count of Downloads - Saturday 18th April 1998 http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/js077/index.html Have you got files on your web space that people can download? Do you want to count how many times they are downloaded? This article discusses how to keep count of how many times a file is downloaded. Using a combination of image or floating frame replacement, this utility loads a CGI image to increment a counter. You obviously need to have a CGI image counter for this to work - most people do - either from your ISP or from a third party. Time around the world - Saturday 11th April 1998 http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/js076/index.html This article discuses timezone offsets, which can be used to display the time anywhere around the world. Updated FAQs: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JavaScript Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Saturday 25th April 1998 http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/scrfaq.html Another 124 New Frequently Asked JavaScript questions - Answered! Java Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Saturday 11th April 1998 http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/javafaq.html Introducing a new resource to the JavaScript 'No Content' Web site - the Java FAQ - maintained by Dr. Tarique Sani and Rajesh Dhawan. Use the form at the bottom of the Java FAQ pages to address your questions to Dr. Tarique Sani and Rajesh Dhawan. The SiteCreator Channel: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new link with Michael Bednareks' SiteCreator Channel has been arranged. There are currently five JavaScript Beginner Articles available on Michael Bednareks' SiteCreator Channel. If you find the existing articles hard to follow then these will be just the thing for you: #1 JavaScript - An Introduction #2 JavaScript - The Basics #3 JavaScript - Functions #4 JavaScript - The objects #5 JavaScript - Form objects Links to these articles are available from the JavaScript 'No Content' Web Site: http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/ Free Downloads: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remember that the complete contents of the JavaScript 'No Content' Web site can be downloaded. The download has recently been amended so that its possible to download either the FAQS or the Articles. These files are automatically updated each time the site is updated. The zip files are available for download from the download page: http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/utility/download.html The Bookstore: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Are you looking for a book? Take a look at the Bookstore - a list of JavaScript, HTML, Perl and other recommended reading for Web Developers. Do you have a favourite computer book that you would recommend to others? Send an email to mailto:martin.webb@btinternet.com with your recommendations and comments and we'll do the rest. Beta Tester program: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Want to see articles before they are published? Have you got an interesting browser setup? Do you want to give feedback on articles? Then why not join the Beta Test program, you'll even get a mention on the Beta Test page: http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/utility/beta.html If you are interested send details of your browser and operating system to mailto:martin.webb@btinternet.com Sponsorship: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The JavaScript 'No Content' Web Site is looking for sponsorship. The JavaScript 'No Content' Web Site receives over 2000 visitors each week, and this newsletter goes out to over 1000 people. If you have any serious suggestions we'd like to hear from you. Send an email with details to mailto:janus@janusboye.dk The Future: ~~~~~~~~~~~ We are going to be acquiring are own domain name and moving the site to somewhere with a bit more room and scope to develop the site further. We'll be expanding the site to cover more areas, e.g. HTML, DHTML, CSS, CSSP, JSS, XML, CGI, Perl, Java etc. If you'd like to help out, or have ideas of your own then we'd like to hear from you. Send an email to mailto:martin.webb@btinternet.com ---- If you no longer wish to receive notification of updates just send a reply message - remember I'm a human being and not an automated list server. Regards Martin Webb JavaScript Web Site - http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/ JavaScript FAQ - http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/faq.html JavaScript Articles - http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.webb/search.html Guest Authors welcome to write/submit articles |