BurningbirdOriginally appeared in Netscape World, now archived at Wayback Machine Web page authors want to control more than what basic HTML provides, yet they also want their pages to display in the same manner across multiple browsers and multiple platforms. HTML provides the tools that allow us to create hypertext links, frames, tables, lists, or […]
Don’t shoot me for using HTML tables for formatting the page. This was the standard of the time. An HTML table is more than a technique to throw a bar around some text; it can also be used to finely control the appearance of your entire page. To start, we’ll create a table that is […]
My first real experience with the Internet was subscribing to a Usenet on a symbolic modeling language. I remember reading a response from a researcher in Switzerland and deciding to write my first entry into the thread. Every time someone would write from a different country I was awed. Where else and in what other […]
Imagine this scenario: You get up in the morning, grab a cup of coffee, and wander out to the Living Room. You stand and gaze out the window for a few minutes taking advantage of that great mountain view. Then you casually go into your home office and start looking through your email. After you […]
Originally published in Netscape World, archived at the Wayback Machine Prior to Netscape implementing JavaScript in Netscape Navigator, web developers had few tools to create interactive content for their web pages. Now this scripting language gives developers the ability to do things such as check form contents, communicate with the user based on their actions, […]