Originally published in ASP Today, October 20, 1999 As soon as HTML forms were added to the HTML specification, and CGI use extended to server-side applications, folks immediately thought of using the Web for online stores – the concept of the shopping cart was born. If you’ve ever done any online shopping, you’ve used a shopping cart. […]
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Shopping Carts
Recently, someone, I’ll call him Joe, sent me an email and asked a question about maintaining shopping cart items using client-side cookies. A shopping cart is basically a program that maintains a list of items that a person has ordered, a list that can be viewed and reviewed and usually modified. Joe had run into […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. IN THIS CHAPTER The Chaos of Change The Current Technology Platform A Summary Review of the Technologies Covered in the Book–Where Will They Be in a Year? Client Scripting and CSS1 Positioning With an industry that seems to go through a new revolutionary change at least four times a year, […]
Adding Persistence to DHTML Effects
Originally published at Netscape Enterprise Developer, now archived at the Wayback Machine Dynamic HTML (DHTML), implemented in Netscape Navigator 4.x and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x, gives the Web page visitor the ability to alter the position, format, or visibility of an HTML element. However, the effects that are created with DHTML are transitory in that […]
A cross-browser text rollover
You may or may not have seen image rollovers. Rollovers are effects that provide visual feedback to the reader when his or her mouse is over an item. Well, you can also create text rollovers. This cheap page trick shows just one technique that you can use to create a text rollover. First, I create […]
