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Following your request to receive notification when the irt.org web site (http://www.irt.org/) has been updated, here is the latest irt.org newsletter: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In This Edition: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Articles at irt.org * Steps to Java Internationalization (i18n) * The Amazing ActiveX - Part 1 * Apache at your Web Service * SVG - What's in it for us? * E-Store on the Web : Let's Go Shopping! * Creating a Page Counter In Perl * Flag as a symbol of language - stupidity or insult? Resources at irt.org * JavaScript DOM BugAThon * New JavaScript W3C DOM category in Open Directory * Are your CGIs ready for HTTP 1.1 CONTENT_TYPE? FAQs at irt.org * VBScript Frequently Asked Questions Software Reviews at irt.org * Sun Java Workshop 2.0 Books at irt.org * Building Dynamic HTML GUIs How to subscribe/unsubscribe Articles at irt.org [http://www.irt.org/articles/] ===================== Steps to Java Internationalization (i18n) http://www.irt.org/articles/js179/index.htm With Internationalization your Java applications can be adapted to various languages and regions without code changes. The term internationalization is abbreviated as i18n, because there are 18 letters between the first 'i' and the last 'n'. Support for new languages does not require recompilation or code changes! Written by Azzam and Kaesar Alnijres. The Amazing ActiveX - Part 1 http://www.irt.org/articles/js178/index.htm ActiveX is Microsoft's patented Windows technology that allows you to load a type of applet into your web browser. These applets are very much the same as Java Applets and can add an incredible amount of dynamics to your web page - By Ryan Detert. Apache at your Web Service http://www.irt.org/articles/js177/index.htm A World-Wide Web (Web) server is a program that provides information to the client on request. One of the most powerful and widely-used Web server in use today, Apache, is discussed by Pankaj Kamthan. SVG - What's in it for us? http://www.irt.org/articles/js176/index.htm This article, by Janus Boye, will first cover the exciting functionality that SVG brings to the Web, then discuss the advantages of being an XML-based graphics format, and then finally some words and predictions about the future of SVG. E-Store on the Web : Let's Go Shopping! http://www.irt.org/articles/js175/index.htm E-commerce over the World-Wide Web (Web) is a rapidly evolving and proliferating field. Establishing an electronic store (e-store) makes selling on the Web a reality. Pankaj Kamthan discusses issues involved in deploying an e-store, using the software PerlShop as a prototype. Creating a Page Counter In Perl http://www.irt.org/articles/js174/index.htm In this article Jason Nugent describes a counter that can be run as a Server Side Include. Essentially that means writing a Perl script that will run each time the page is loaded and its output will contain a line of text indicating how many people have seen the page. Flag as a symbol of language - stupidity or insult? http://www.irt.org/articles/js173/index.htm Jukka Korpela describes why you should be wary about using country flags to indicate text in different languages Resources at irt.org ====================== JavaScript DOM BugAThon http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html mozilla.org and the Gecko team need JavaScripters! Do you know JavaScript? Do you want to help mozilla.org in the fight for open standards and open source? Here's your chance! We need JavaScript developers to help simplify JavaScript Document Object Model (DOM) bug reports down to simple-as-possible test cases. This will help the Gecko engineers fix DOM bugs faster and make sure your JavaScript web pages work flawlessly when Navigator 5 ships! Read about the Gecko BugAThon at http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html, then dive into Vidur's JavaScript DOM bug list at http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html#dom. New JavaScript W3C DOM category in Open Directory http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/JavaScript/W3C_DOM/ Do you want to learn about writing JavaScript with the W3C Document Object Model (DOM)? Do you want to find the Internet's best articles, TechNotes, and sample code on the W3C DOM? Then visit the new Netscape Open Directory category for JavaScript programming with the W3C DOM at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/JavaScript/W3C_DOM/ Know a good resource? Submit it! Better yet, join as a category co-editor yourself and help index the web's W3C DOM JavaScript resources! Are your CGIs ready for HTTP 1.1 CONTENT_TYPE? http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/index_frame.html?content=krock_v5.html The HTTP 1.0 CONTENT_TYPE line looked like this: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded The HTTP 1.1 CONTENT_TYPE line looks like this: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1 In the interest of being standards-compliant and supporting multiple languages, Navigator 5 will support this feature of HTTP 1.1. Improperly designed CGI scripts that aren't forward-compatible with this change to the HTTP protocol will need to be fixed to support HTTP 1.1. Make sure your CGI scripts are ready for the HTTP 1.1 CONTENT_TYPE header. FAQs at irt.org [http://www.irt.org/faqs.htm] ================= VBScript Frequently Asked Questions http://www.irt.org/script/vbscript.htm Ryan Detert begins a new irt.org resource - the irt.org VBScript Frequently Asked Questions Knowledge - with answers Software Reviews at irt.org [http://www.irt.org/software/] ============================= Sun Java Workshop 2.0 http://www.irt.org/software/sw07/index.htm Pat Magnan takes a look at this Java IDE from Sun Microsystems, inventors of Java itself. Books at irt.org [http://www.irt.org/books/] ================== Building Dynamic HTML GUIs http://www.irt.org/books/0764532677.htm Martin Webb reviews the book "Building Dynamic HTML GUIs" written by Steven Champeon and David Fox. 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