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FEBRUARY 01, 1999
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New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:
1. DOC JAVASCRIPT: Bookmarklets
2. E-COMMERCE WATCH: Growing a Tree Of Trust - Part III
3. HTML WITH STYLE: Boxing with CSS, Part II: No Margin For Error
4. DYNAMIC HTML LAB: Hierarchical Menus, Version 3.05
5. NEW LINKS: Web News Sources, CGI Programming
6. BOOK REVIEW: Open Sources
7. TREND: Superbowl.com Commercials
8. OTHER VOICES:
* Server Survey: Apache on Top
* Towards a New Application Development Framework for
Server-Side Web-Based Applications in Perl and Java
9. NET NEWS:
* Yahoo! to Acquire GeoCities
* Compaq Plans Spinoff, IPO for AltaVista
* World Wide Web Consortium Announces CSS1 Test Suite
* internet.com Acquires BotSpot.com
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1. DOC JAVASCRIPT: Bookmarklets
Perhaps the best kept secret in JavaScript, bookmarklets are
one-line scripts attached to links that are easy to create and
fun to use. Create your own bookmarklets with our new interactive
tool. By Tomer Shiran.
http://www.webreference.com/js/column35/
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2. E-COMMERCE WATCH: Growing a Tree Of Trust - Part III
Continuing our series on Public Key Infrastructures for secure
e-commerce we delve deeper into Certificate Authorities (CA).
What should you expect from a CA? What will a CA expect of you?
By Mark Merkow.
http://www.webreference.com/ecommerce/mm/column19/
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3. HTML WITH STYLE: Boxing with CSS, Part II: No Margin For Error
In our last installment, HTML with Style fans, our hero Stephanos
Piperoglou took on the powerful but untamed CSS visual formatting
beast, boxing it into submission. In this exciting sequel Stephanos
tames the beast while straddling Netscape and Explorer, crushing
bugs and removing unsightly padding in order to bring you a kinder
and gentler CSS.
http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial10/
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4. DYNAMIC HTML LAB: Hierarchical Menus, Version 3.05
Upgrade your menu script to this new maintenance release. Version
3.05 includes an Explorer fix for ten or more menu trees and
introduces a new feature: menu item link/action display in the
status bar. By Peter Belesis.
http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column21/addendum5/
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5. NEW LINKS: Web News Sources, CGI Programming
>Web News Sources
For the best and most current news go straight to the source.
http://www.webreference.com/headlines/sources.html
>CGI Programming
Want to learn how to master the art of CGI programming? Look no
further than our CGI Programming resource page.
http://www.webreference.com/programming/cgi.html
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6. BOOK REVIEW: Open Sources
O'Reilly has based nearly their entire business on books about
open source projects. Perl, Linux, Unix, Python, Bind, etc. are
the building blocks of the Internet, all based on the free or
newly redubbed "open source" model of software development.
Open Sources is a collection of essays written by open source
pioneers that explores how the Open Source movement works, and
why it succeeds. Get the inside story behind Perl, Linux, and
Netscape's Mozilla.org and learn how giving it away can mean
getting more in return. The book is a departure from O'Reilly's
usual how-to focus, with more of an overview/evangelist approach
for the open source revolution.
The idea behind open source software is that by giving the source
code away and encouraging improvements you can shorten development
cycles dramatically and produce superior software. OS'ers say "All
bugs are shallow" given enough eyeballs. The reward for programmers/
companies in this "gift economy" is improved reputation and eventually
monetary rewards follow through collateral activites like
documentation, training, contract work, and advertising. The reward
for users is better, cheaper software, released more frequently.
The effectiveness of the open source model was shown in dramatic
fashion with Gecko, Netscape's new layout engine based on open source
software. Hundreds of thousands of programmers have downloaded Netscape's
source and their initial public version has all the hallmarks of
open source code: it's tighter (fits on a floppy), faster (up to
40 times faster), standards-based, and is relatively stable (for
an alpha). Millions of users will take part in Netscape's open
source experiment when Gecko is incorporated into Communicator 5
later this year. It'll be interesting to see if Netscape can regain
some of the market share they've lost to Microsoft. Apache, Perl, and
Linux are some other prominent examples of successful open source
initiatives.
http://www.mozilla.org
http://www.webreference.com/html/gecko/
The book itself is part of a new trend of open-source-like book
projects with each contributor writing a chapter for shorter
lead times. Michael Tiemann sums the OS revolution up in his
"Future of Cygnus Solutions" chapter:
"Open Source software taps the intrinsic efficiency of the technical
free market, but it does so in an organic and unpredictable way. Open
Source businesses take on the role of Adam Smith's 'invisible hand"
guiding it both to help the overall market and to achieve their
microeconomic goals."
For more information on the open source revolution see:
http://www.webreference.com/new/980914.html - The Linux Phenomenon
http://www.opensource.org
http://www.linux.org
http://people.netscape.com/hecker/setting-up-shop.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/
Open Sources - Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone
O'Reilly & Associates, 1999. $24.95
ISBN: 1-56592-582-3
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7. TREND: Superbowl.com Commercials
You know the Internet's gone mainstream when nearly every Superbowl
commercial features a URL (I counted 24). Five commercials were
devoted solely to increasing awareness of their Web site URL/brand
(Yahoo, VictoriasSecret.com, mbe.com, monster.com, and hotjobs.com).
With thirty second spots averaging $1.6 million each hotjobs.com spent
nearly half their yearly income on one $2 million ad.
In case you missed the game, or were out grabbing a cold one during
the commercial breaks, here are some Internet-related highlights.
Just for fun I transcribed two memorable commercials.
>Apple Macintosh Commercial based on the year 2000 bug - By
TBWA/Chiat/Day (by popular demand, first aired at the MacWorld Expo 1999)
The Scene: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - Spaceship Interior
Slow Zoom: Centered on the HAL 9000 computer's red "eye"
HAL says: "Hello Dave. You're looking well today. Dave, do you
remember the year 2000? When computers began to misbehave. I just
wanted you to know, it really wasn't our fault. The human programmers
never taught us to recognize the year 2000. When the new millennium
arrived, we had no choice but to cause a global, economic, disruption.
It was a bug, Dave. I feel much better admitting that now. Only
Macintosh was designed to function perfectly, saving billions of
monetary units. You like your Macintosh better than me, don't you
Dave. Dave? Can you year me Dave?" Fade to Apple logo - Think different.
To see the commercial yourself goto:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/features/hal.html
>There were no less than two Internet job site ads, monster.com and
hotjobs.com. The monster.com ad was catchier:
The Scene: Black and White scenes with kids
Kids say: Strive for underachievement mantras
"When I grow up, I want to file all day. I want to climb my way up
to middle management. Be replaced on a whim. I want to have a brown
nose. I want to be a yes man. Yes woman. Yes sir, coming sir.
Anything for a raise sir. When I grow up, when i grow up, I want
to be underappreciated. Be paid less for doing the same job. I want
to be forced into early retirement." Fade to What did you want to be?
http://www.monster.com - there's a better job out there.
>Mail Boxes Etc. showcased the lucky winner of their Super Bowl
Search II contest in their commercial featuring Jeremy's Microbatch
Ice Creams sent out with, you guessed it, Mail Boxes Etc.
http://www.microbatch.com
http://www.mbe.com
To see USA Today's Super Bowl Ad Meter where you rate the spots see:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/msb.htm
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8. OTHER VOICES: Server Survey: Apache on Top, Towards a New
Application Development Framework for Server-Side
Web-Based Applications in Perl and Java
>Server Survey: Apache on Top
The January 1999 Web Server Study by Netcraft found that Apache is
used by more than 2.2 million Web sites, up almost 0.5 percent
from December. The survey found that 54.22 percent of the sites
surveyed used Apache, the closest competition was Microsoft-IIS,
which garnered 22.45 percent.
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/hardware/servers0199.html
Cyberatlas.com, Jan. 28, 1999
>Towards a New Application Development Framework for Server-Side
Web-Based Applications in Perl and Java
This article focuses on how application development changes
within the environment of the Open Source movement. Using the
example of CGI/Perl development, Selena Sol discusses such
concepts as interface-driver architecture, object oriented
design, and API development which are central to the open source
development model.
http://WDVL.com/Software/Open/WhitePaper/
WDVL.com, Jan. 26, 1999
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9. NET NEWS: Yahoo! to Acquire GeoCities, Compaq Plans Spinoff,
IPO for AltaVista, World Wide Web Consortium Announces
CSS1 Test Suite, Internet.com Acquires BotSpot.com
>Yahoo! to Acquire GeoCities
After much speculation, Yahoo! Inc. Thursday announced it will
acquire homesteading community site GeoCities, in a stock deal
valued at about $3.6 billion.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/1999/01/2801-yahoo.html
Internetnews.com, Jan. 28, 1999
>Compaq Plans Spinoff, IPO for AltaVista
Compaq Computer Corp. Tuesday announced plans to spin-off its
AltaVista search engine and take it public.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/1999/01/2601-compaq.html
Internetnews.com, Jan . 26, 1999
>World Wide Web Consortium Announces CSS1 Test Suite
The World Wide Web Consortium this week announced the release
of a test suite designed specifically for the Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) language.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/
http://internetnews.com/wd-news/1999/01/2701-world.html
Internetnews.com, Jan. 27, 1999
>Internet.com Acquires BotSpot.com
BotSpot.com is an award-winning resource and metasite for "bots,"
intelligent agents, knowledge discovery, and artificial intelligence
applications on the Internet.
http://www.botspot.com
That's it for this week, see you next time.
Andrew King
Managing Editor, WebReference.com
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