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28th March 2000

RichInStyle.com

“Now for the first time, with RichInStyle.com, you can use the latest technologies with confidence — whereas before you would have been ill-advised to rely on style sheets for styling your pages, you can now afford to use them on all your pages and reap all the many benefits that they bring. More than 1000 browser bugs, complete bug table, best web safe Colorizer on the net, CSS 1 and 2 tutorials, guides to trouble-free style, free MySite technology for your pages, more than 300 test pages, and much more.”

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28th March 2000

The Economies of Online Cooperation

“The Internet is filled with junk and jerks. It is commonplace for inhabitant of the Internet to complain bitterly about the lack of cooperation, decorum, and useful information. The signal-to-noise ratio, it is said, is bad and getting worse. Even a casual trip through cyberspace will turn up evidence of hostility, selfishness, and simple nonsense. Yet the wonder of the Internet is not that there is so much noise, but that there is any significant cooperation at all.”

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28th March 2000

64 new faces for Audion

“Here’s the latest batch of amazing new interfaces created by Audion users. Only Audion looks this good. Download one and bam! Instant envy from your PC owning friends.”

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28th March 2000

Design for scalability

“This paper describes component selection and management techniques you can use to make your Web site ready to adapt to increasing traffic. These techniques are the product of IBM’s experience working with customers seeking to improve the performance and availability of some of the world’s largest Web sites.”

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28th March 2000

Dynamically Change the Color of an Image

“…imagine having an online store that sells T-shirts of different colors. Being able to dynamically change the color of a T-shirt based on a user’s selection would be handy in displaying your collection of available T-shirts. I’ll show you how to accomplish this trick using DHTML and Internet Explorer 4+ by creating an image of a T-shirt that changes colors based on a user’s selection. The user will be able to select a color from a palette and change the T-shirt to the selected color.”

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28th March 2000

An Idiot’s Guide to the Resource Description Framework

“RDF is an application of XML. It extends the XML model and syntax to be specific for describing resources. RDF utilises the Namespace facility of XML. The XML Namespace, which points to a URI, allows RDF to scope and uniquely identify a set of properties. This set of properties, called a schema, can be accessed at the URI identified by the namespace. Also, since RDF is based on XML, it inherits the language tag, thus enabling the support of multi-lingual metadata.”

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