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May 2, 2006 — Newsletter # 387
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in use and in doing so, described it as the active partner to the passive HTML,
when it comes to basic Web page design. If these two are the fundament for
the Web page, what else is there, and what does the future hold?
These technologies are Server Side technologies, meaning that when they are
called upon to perform their duties, the software involved runs on the Web
Server computer systems, as opposed to HTML and JavaScript, which run on the
client side (where the Web Browser is running.)
has access to databases and other resources at the server end of the
conversation, but does not have the ability to interact directly with the site
visitor sitting at their client side computer, while the client side
technologies like HTNL and JavaScript are the reverse, in that they can interact
with the user, but don’t have direct access to files, databases, etc.
it is becoming much more of a tool for communication between resources and the
consumers and producers of those resources. For example, in times past an
organization may have gathered information into a central location, entered it
into a computer system to organize and sift through it and then placed the
resulting synopsis onto a web page for the use of those who needed it.
the raw information and the central server systems, the middle processes can be
bypassed, enabling the resulting synopsis to be produced in real time, on
demand. From beginning to end, this is both more efficient and more
usefully productive.
and server ends of the task, providing a high degree of seamless interactivity
between the user and the databases and resources at the server.
Technologies like Microsoft’s Dot Net Architecture are designed to shrink the
bridge, as it were, providing a more seamless link. Technologies like
Citrix’ Presentation Server are designed to enable (among other things) users to
access older programs over the Internet as though they were sitting at the
central server computer.
information are not constrained by geography — in other words, their screens
can be any Internet connected computer, so they don’t actually have to go into
an office to do what they need to do.
technology will receive an increasing share of the attention of the development
community, so if you’re planning a career in Web development, you might want to
start looking into them too!
Thanks for reading!
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Q. I’m puzzled: – the text on my web
pages changes size for user preferences, but the headings don’t. Why is
this?
absolute font sizes (pt or px) to change with user preferences — Netscape 6+
and Mozilla do allow it. If you want IE to recognize the font-size user change,
you’ll need to use % or em instead of pt.
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Q. I have a web site done in tables
and am trying to convert it to CSS. Everything seems to work fine except
for my problems of aligning tables within tables. I finally got everything
to work, but don’t know if the coding is correct. (sample provided)
able to get something working by using the text-align and vertical-align css
properties.
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Q. I have a piece of Java script I
got off the HTML goodies page to open a new window. It works well enough but
what I want it to do is to run from an onClick event handler. How do I get it to
do this.?
call the function either by using the onClick or by placing the function call in
the “href”. Here is an
example:
<.html>
<.head>
<.title>Open
new window<./title>
<.script
LANGAUAGE=”javascript”>
function
OpenWin()
{
MessageWin=window.open (“http://www.wsabstract.com“,
“newwin”,config=”location=no,status=no,directories
=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,menubar=no,resizable=no”);
}
<./script>
<./head>
<.body>
<.center>
<.a href=”JavaScript:OpenWin()”>Click
here<./a> <.br>Or you can use the onClick
event:
<.a
href=”#” onClick=”OpenWin()”>Click
here<./a>
<./center>
<./body>
<./html>
variable that contains the link you want to open up in the new window like
this:
<.html> <.head>
<.title>Open new
window<./title>
<.script
LANGAUAGE=”javascript”>
function
OpenWin(linkid)
{
MessageWin=window.open
(linkid,
“newwin”,config=”location=no,status=no,directories=no,toolbar=no,scroll
bars=no,menubar=no,resizable=no”);
}
<./script>
<./head>
<.body>
<.center>
<.a
href=”JavaScript:OpenWin(‘https://www.htmlgoodies.com’)”>Click here<./a>
<.br>Or you can use the onClick event:
<.a href=”#”
onClick=”OpenWin(‘https://www.htmlgoodies.com’)”>Click here<./a>
<./center> <./body> <./html>
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Q. My site uses 3 frames, heading,
links and the third is the body, which is the only thing that changes as you
move through different parts of the site. I’m using css for fonts, colors
and background images on the site. I would like to use a watermark logo, but I
do not want to show it in the heading or links frames, only the body. Is there
some way to override the background image in the css file in my heading and
links frame so it remains as just a white background?
Put the background
declaration in body.withbg {background-image….}
Community.
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window. How do I get the script to open the page in the same window?
document in the same page.
Discussion Goodies
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a great place to get help from others who, just like you, are developing web
pages. Many different topics appear in the forum, and a new one will
appear if you create it! Here’s a sample of recent topics:
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=105058
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=105073
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=105048
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=105050
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[May 2, 2006] Microsoft and SAP
unveil a highly anticipated project to make their software interoperable.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3603061
‘Don’t Panic’? RIM Sued Again
[May 2, 2006] Barely able to catch its
breath, RIM finds itself in familiar territory
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3603196
Green Heading Back to Sun
[May 2, 2006] Rich Green goes back to Sun
after a two-year stint at virtualization software specialist Cassatt.
Read
the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3603156
Keeping an Open Source Eye on Interop
[May 2, 2006] You don’t need
expensive commercial software to handle large network management anymore. Or do
you?
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3603141
Avaya VoIP Linux Style to The SMB
[May 2, 2006] The company isn’t
‘dumbing down’ the apps, but merely making access and deployment
SMB-friendly.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3603111
Sun Says Manage Your Data in Four Steps
[May 2, 2006] The systems
vendor will make data management the focus of its quarterly news event.
Read
the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3602976
Turn Your Laptop Into a GPS
[May 2, 2006] MapPoint 2006 provides GPS
and regional data analysis.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3603001
Zero-Day Attacks an Ongoing Menace
[May 1, 2006] Security report
details biggest Internet vulnerabilities.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3602996
Microsoft Plays The Room
[May 1, 2006] Microsoft was panned on Wall
Street, but its announcement today was all about pleasing Main Street.
Read
the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3602981
Neighborhood Watch for Network Security?
[May 1, 2006] It may take a
peer-to-peer village to help improve network security.
Read the
article:
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3602796
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Windows Tech Goodie of the Week
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In the first part of his
hands-on tutorial on using Visual Studio 2005 to build a complete 3-tier
application, David Catherman examines how Visual Studio 2005 can be used as a
great tool for designing and building SQL Server 2005 databases.
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User Tips: Calculate the Date After a Given Number of Business
Days
business days before taking an action. In particular, they wanted to know, given
a certain date (such as today), on what date should the action be taken if we
must wait 15 business days. A business day is defined as any weekday that is not
a holiday.
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AutoPostBack ASP.NET Sample Code
that the part of the code which I received the most questions on was that the
form posted back to the server automatically whenever the value of the drop down
list was changed. I wish I could take credit for it…
And Remember This …
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chartered the Hudson Bay Company; 1878 the US stopped minting the twenty cent
coin; 1885 the first “Good Housekeeping” magazine was published; 1887 Hannibal W
Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film; 1932 Jack Benny’s radio sow
premiered on NBC radio; 1938 Ella Fitzgerald recorded “A Tisket, A Tasket”; 1946
five died in a prisoners’ revolt at Alcatraz; 1952 The first scheduled jet
airliner passenger service began with a BOAC (British Overseas Airways
Corporation) Comet; 1969 The ocean liner (Cunard Line) Queen Elizabeth II set
sail on her maiden voyage (to New York city); 1975 Apple Records closed down;
1994 Michael Bolton was found to have plagiarized Isley Brothers’ “Love is
Wonderful Thing”;
Born today were: in 1837 writer of parliamentary Rules of Order,
General Henry Martyn Robert; 1869 English actor Tyrone Power Sr.; 1892 German
WWI air ace “the Red Baron” Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen; 1903
pediatrician/author Dr. Benjamin Spock; 1925 actor John Neville; 1945 former
wife of Mick, Bianca Pirez Morena de Macias Jagger; 1945 English musician Robert
Henrit the Kinks, Argent); 1947 actress Jo Ann Pflug; 1952 actress Christine
Baranski; 1955 musician Jay Osmond; 1959 actor Brian Tochi; 1962 actress
Elizabeth Berridge;
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