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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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 100% irt.org on CD-ROM > Articles at irt.org * JavaScript Y2K Issues * XML and CSS : Structured Markup with Display Semantics * What are RFC's * Man-Handling Events #3 * Man-Handling Events #2 * MetaCreation and Intel's New MetaFlash Technology * XML Namespaces : Universal Identification in XML Markup * XHTML : HTML as an XML Application * Internet Explorer As A Development Platform? * Re-directing access within frames - Revisited * Man-Handling Events #1 * Controlling Data Entry Using Form Fields * META tags: What they are and how they work * Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 Image Map Tutorial > Software Reviews at irt.org * Symantec Visual Cafe DDE > Resources at irt.org * Internet Related Technology News Round-up * "navigator" Object Security Vunerability > How to subscribe/unsubscribe or change your email address > 100% irt.org on CD-ROM [http://www.irt.org/about/cdrom.htm] ======================== Save on bandwidth, save on internet call charges, get the complete irt.org on CD-ROM: Hundreds of technical articles/tutorials Thousands of FAQ entries in the Knowledge Base Complete games section with dozens of JavaScript games All the bulletin board messages Book reviews Software reviews Approximately 50Mb of quality information for developers, all available in HTML format. > Articles at irt.org [http://www.irt.org/articles/] ===================== http://www.irt.org/articles/js199/index.htm > JavaScript Y2K Issues Y2K has come and gone. This article discusses Y2K issues still present in JavaScript, and describes how to code around them. By Martin Webb http://www.irt.org/articles/js198/index.htm > XML and CSS : Structured Markup with Display Semantics Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a standard for marking up data in a structured manner. Styling the content of XML documents so that it can be presented to a Web browser is therefore desirable. Viability of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in styling XML documents is discussed. Examples from a variety of XML applications are included. By Pankaj Kamthan http://www.irt.org/articles/js197/index.htm > What are RFC's Jukka Korpela describes "Requests For Comments" (RFCs), their usage , history and relevance to internet developers http://www.irt.org/articles/js196/index.htm > Man-Handling Events #3 Ryan Detert continues the series on events and event handlers in both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. This time covering the mouse events http://www.irt.org/articles/js195/index.htm > Man-Handling Events #2 Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer offer an incredible amount of versatility. Events, their handlers in particular, have given web pages a more robust, interactive environment. In this article Ryan Detert explores event handlers available since JavaScript 1.2 it has been possible to capture and even cancel key presses. http://www.irt.org/articles/js194/index.htm > MetaCreation and Intel's New MetaFlash Technology Ryan Detert goes a little bit crazy! See him in 3D color with the help of MetaCreation and Intel with the new MetaFlash 3D camera http://www.irt.org/articles/js193/index.htm > XML Namespaces : Universal Identification in XML Markup XML namespaces provides a method for qualifying element and attribute names used in Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents by associating them with namespaces uniquely identified by Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) references. The motivation for XML namespaces, along with their internal workings are discussed by Pankaj Kamthan with the help of various examples. Specific applications are included. http://www.irt.org/articles/js192/index.htm > XHTML : HTML as an XML Application HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the definitive markup language for the Web, is inflicted with various problems. To solve those problems, HTML has been reformulated as XHTML (eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language) 1.0, which is an XML 1.0 application. An introduction, from the author's viewpoint, is given. Issues of XHTML 1.0 syntax and semantics, transition from HTML to XHTML 1.0, and XHTML 1.0 authoring, rendering and validation are discussed by Pankaj Kamthan http://wwww.irt.org/articles/js191/index.htm > Internet Explorer As A Development Platform? Internet Explorer has evolved a significant amount since its version 3.0 was introduced a few years back. Dynamic HTML is equipped with its own hierarchy, programming languages, you name it. You can almost run your computer with it. Now what if we took the DHTML in IE and used it to re-create IE. Is this possible? Of course it is. Ryan Detert shows how using the new HTML Applications (HTA's) that Internet Explorer 5.0 now supports. http://www.irt.org/articles/js190/index.htm > Re-directing access within frames - Revisited Martin Webb and Jan Ehrhardt revisit for the third time frames and how to redirect access to individual frames to a correctly framed version using JavaScript fixing problems found in Micorsoft Internet Explorer 3.01 for the Mac and various versions of Opera. http://www.irt.org/articles/js189/index.htm > Man-Handling Events #1 The latest versions of Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer offer an incredible amount of versatility to the programmer compared to the browsers of yore. Events, their handlers in particular, have given web pages a more robust, interactive environment. Explorer's latest version, 5.0, is the best equipped with event handlers, as you may handle any event from printing to pasting. In this article Ryan Detert explores events in both Netscape Communicator 4.0 and Explorer 4.0+ http://www.irt.org/articles/js188/index.htm > Controlling Data Entry Using Form Fields How can you automatically jump to another field once the current field has been competed. For example, when entering a telephone number into separate one character sized form fields? Why you might want to do this is not important. How to do it, caused a fair bit of head scratching here at irt.org when asked to raise to the challenge. This article explains the reasons why it isn't as easy as it might first appear, and shows a fully working example at the end. By Martin Webb. http://www.irt.org/articles/js187/index.htm > META tags: What they are and how they work The main purpose of HTML is to enable web authors to specify structural information about their pages - for example tables, paragraphs, images and so on. However, it also provides a way of adding information about the page and its content. Such information is known as metadata, and is added through the use of the <META> tag. By Michael Bednarek. http://www.irt.org/articles/js186/index.htm > Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 Image Map Tutorial Martin Webb demonstrates how to use Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 - a graphics package - to create client-side image maps using client-side JavaScript. > Software Reviews at irt.org ============================= http://www.irt.org/software/sw019/index.htm > Symantec Visual Cafe DDE Stephen Saunders evaluates Symantec's Java IDE with database development features. > Resources at irt.org ====================== http://www.irt.org/cgi-bin/news > Internet Related Technology News Round-up All the Technology News from around the world - updated daily http://www.irt.org/navigator/index.htm > "navigator" Object Security Vunerability The "navigator" Object Security Vunerability introduces user defined read/write properties on the browsers navigator object, that can be accessed by any domain using JavaScript, i.e. one domain can write data and another can read/write or update that data. > 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 |