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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 * Form Image Button Fields * CGI Security : Better Safe than Sorry * JavaScripting Essentials * Hypertext on PDAs * un-Gratuitous Gradients * Made to Measure : Apache Web Server Customization > Software Reviews at irt.org * Xara3D 3 > Resources at irt.org * ZDNet Seybold Seminar '99 ReCap * SIGN UP FOR FREE SEMINARS on web standards, embedding Gecko, and plug-ins in Nav5! > Games at irt.org * WebGames Techniques #03 - Game Development in JavaScript * JavaScript Snake Game > FAQs at irt.org * Active Server Pages FAQ - new irt.org resource > How to subscribe/unsubscribe or change your email address > Articles at irt.org [http://www.irt.org/articles/] ===================== Sunday 26th September 1999 http://www.irt.org/articles/js185/index.htm Form Image Button Fields So you want to use nice gifs instead of those ugly looking gray buttons to submit and reset your form? No Problem - just use form type=image. Or is there more to it than that? - Rafal Koszyk Sunday 19th September 1999 http://www.irt.org/articles/js184/index.htm CGI Security : Better Safe than Sorry The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for interfacing external programs with the Web servers. In absence of appropriate security measures, CGI scripts can present a variety of security problems to their host. Solutions are suggested by Pankaj Kamthan to minimize these problems, and even eliminate them in certain cases. Sunday 12th September 1999 http://www.irt.org/articles/js183/index.htm JavaScripting Essentials Ryan Detert runs through the fundamentals of JavaScript. Sunday 5th September 1999 http://www.irt.org/articles/js182/index.htm Hypertext on PDAs By Janus Boye. Wouldn't it be cool, if we could have a simple hypertext system on our PDA's? Imagine being able to enter a meeting in your calendar, and having that linked to the address of the meeting in your address book, plus linked to your meeting notes, and an email you received about the meeting. Tuesday 31st August 1999 http://www.irt.org/articles/js181/index.htm un-Gratuitous Gradients Have you ever been to a site where words or sentences are composed of what appear to be two blended colors? Ever wondered how on earth to do it without using a fancy program or wracking your brain trying to figure out which letter should be what color to generate a nice blend in straight HTML coding? Well in this tutorial Ryan Detert plays around with some of the more advanced features that JavaScript offers, as well as some advanced techniques in order to get a nice shading effect. Sunday 22nd August 1999 http://www.irt.org/articles/js180/index.htm Made to Measure : Apache Web Server Customization Apache is a powerful and widely-used World-Wide Web (Web) server. One of its strengths is that the modules that it is made of are customizable according to the user's requirements. Pankaj Kamthan discusses the benefits and the process of customization, along with a brief introduction to some useful modules. > Software Reviews at irt.org ============================= Sunday 26th September 1999 http://www.irt.org/software/sw018/index.htm Xara3D 3 Michel Plungjan reveals whether the latest version of Xara3D is worth it. > Resources at irt.org ====================== Tuesday 7th September 1999 http://www.irt.org/news/19990907.htm ZDNet Seybold Seminar '99 ReCap Ryan Detert reports on the action at the ZDNet Seybold Seminar '99 Tuesday 31st August 1999 http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/signup.html SIGN UP FOR FREE SEMINARS on web standards, embedding Gecko, and plug-ins in Nav5! Do you want to know how to build web pages, applications, and services with HTML 4.0, CSS, DOM, XML, XML Namespaces, RDF, JavaScript, XUL, and Nav5 Skins? Do you want to embed the Gecko layout engine in an application? Have you ever written a browser plug-in? Then visit http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/signup.html today and reserve your seat at Netscape's free CodeStock seminars on Gecko and Nav5 Technologies! > Games at irt.org ================== Wednesday 22nd September 1999 http://www.irt.org/games/howto/ex003/index.htm WebGames Techniques #03 - Game Development in JavaScript Before there were games such as Alpha Centauri, there was Doom, and befere that there was Pong. The personal computer has come a long way since my first computer, the Apple IIGS+, which didn't even have a harddrive. Now even web browsers, a program and not an operating system, are capable of executing some games at a fairly high caliber. In this article Ryan Detert will explore some of the fundamental methods of making a moderately difficult puzzle game that will work in earlier versions of Netscape and IE. Saturday 11th September 1999 http://www.irt.org/games/js/snake/index.htm JavaScript Snake Game Keith Drakard - our resident games meister - release yet another JavaScript game - Snake > FAQs at irt.org [http://developer.irt.org/faqs.htm] ================= Monday 20th September 1999 http://www.irt.org/script/asp.htm Active Server Pages FAQ - new irt.org resource Richard Lowe starts off another irt.org resource - the Active Server Pages (ASP) Frequently Asked - with answers! > How to subscribe/unsubscribe or change your email address =========================================================== Subscribe: If you wish to receive notification of updates please complete the register form at http://www.irt.org/utility/register.htm#register Unsubscribe: If you no longer wish to receive notification of updates please complete the unregister form at http://www.irt.org/utility/register.htm#unregister Change email address: If you need to change the email address that this newsletter is sent to then first register your new email address and then unregister your old one using the two forms at http://www.irt.org/utility/register.htm -- Martin Webb Internet Related Technologies - http://www.irt.org/ |