Originally published in WebBuilder magazine. Found courtesy Wayback Machine. The DOM, or Document Object Model, is a specification recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) primarily to help eliminate cross-browser dynamic HTML differences. It is implemented with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 5.x, and will be implemented with Netscape’s Navigator 5.x when it is released. […]
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Creating a Shopping Cart ASP Component
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, […]
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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 […]