Originally published in Web Techniques The XML-Based User Interface Language (XUL) made its first appearance with the release of Mozilla, the Open Source browser used as the foundation for Netscape 6. Pronounced “zool,” the language gives developers and designers an easy way to describe the design and layout of application windows in Web browsers. By […]
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PerlScript: A hot ingredient for ASP
Originally published at Web Techniques Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology has grown very popular as a Web server-side technique, combining HTML, embedded scripts, and external components to deliver dynamic content. One feature of ASP is that different languages can be used for its scripting portion, though the most widely used ASP scripting language is […]
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The Tyranny of Standards
Originally published at O’Reilly Before proceeding into the core of this article, I want to say one thing to you: challenge your assumptions. Challenge your assumption that all Internet services are provided by a Web server and consumed by a browser Challenge your assumption that chaos within a development environment is a bad thing. And […]
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. […]