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1. SUBMIT & WIN: Director 8 Shockwave Studio! 2. EXPLORING XML: Editing XML - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 3. PRODUCTION GRAPHICS: Let There Be Lines, Next Week: WebRef Interviews Lynda Weinman 4. MOTHER OF PERL: Simplified DocBk XML on the Web 5. 3D ANIMATION WORKSHOP: The New 3D Artist 6. DOC JAVASCRIPT: IE 5.5: Formatting, URIs, and Stack Operations 7. NET TRENDS: Google Adds Smart Directory 8. OTHER VOICES: * Intro to Perl on Windows: Writing COM Components in Perl * ScriptHead: Webtrails * Mozilla Interview: Brendan Eich and Mitchell Baker 9. NET NEWS: * Netscape: New Browser Near * No Internet Tax Likely Soon * WebTV Hit by Melissa-like Bug * Monkeyjunkies List to Shut Down * Amiga Back From the Dead (Again)

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. SUBMIT & WIN: Director 8 Shockwave Studio!

Every week, the WebRef Update features a new article submitted by our readers. Get published and you'll get fame, exposure, the accolades of your peers - and a copy of Macromedia's hot new Director 8 Shockwave Studio!

http://webreference.com/new/submit.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. EXPLORING XML: Editing XML - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Which XML editor is right for you? We review the latest editors, and find that beauty is more than skin deep. By Michael Classen.

http://webreference.com/xml/column8/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. PRODUCTION GRAPHICS: Let There Be Lines, Next Week: WebRef Interviews Lynda Weinman

Rough is not always right. After her lessons in creative mangling, our graphics diva returns to the straight and narrow, and shows how clean lines never go out of style. By Wendy Peck.

http://webreference.com/graphics/column22/

>Next Week: WebRef Interviews on Lynda Weinman

Coming up next week, Wendy interviews the high priestess of Web design, Lynda Weinman. Make sure you tune in!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. MOTHER OF PERL: Simplified DocBk XML on the Web

DocBook, a structured document format, makes HTML markup a breeze. Streamline your article publishing process with our new DocBk XML to HTML tool. By Jonathan Eisenzopf.

http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/11/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. 3D ANIMATION WORKSHOP: The New 3D Artist

Working with 3D? Don't stay stuck in the static past. The future belongs to the 3D artist who masters the concepts and tools of interactivity. By Rob Polevoi.

http://webreference.com/3d/lesson88/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. DOC JAVASCRIPT: IE 5.5: Formatting, URIs, and Stack Operations

The Doctor's made his diagnosis - IE 5.5 is filled with new built- in features for programmers. Take a look through the microscope at the new methods and operators available for data manipulation. By Dr. Yehuda and Tomer Shiran.

http://webreference.com/js/column59/

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If you haven't been over to Google lately, do yourself a favor and click on over there. Last week the Googlians added a directory service to their innovative search engine.

The directory, licensed from Netscape's Open Directory Project (ODP), is a browsable hierarchical subject-based directory like Yahoo with a difference. Google hand-picked sites listed in the ODP, and ranked them by "importance" using their PageRank algorithm.

So when you browse through each category (Arts, Business, Computers...) the sites listed are automatically sorted by importance or popularity. Nifty stuff. But the Googlians didn't stop there. They integrated the directory results into their seach results. Search on "javascript" for example, and up comes our own JavaScript Source. Since it is also listed in the directory, a category link appears. Click on it and up pops the JavaScript branch of the directory.

The net effect is more relevant searches. Finding the most popular sites for a particular topic is fast, unlike other directories where you have to sift through sites alphabetically (although Google allows that too).

Leverage: What Google has done is leveraged the power of the Web community to rank and now categorize sites. They've taken a daunting problem, indexing the Web, and kung fu'd it with an open solution. PageRank rates sites in part by the popularity of their backlinks, letting webmasters vote with their links. Google also leverages thousands of volunteer editors at ODP to categorize sites, and then adds some magic PageRank to sort them. The results are nothing short of spectacular. I'm Google-eyed.

By Andy King (update@webreference.com)

http://www.google.com http://www.google.com/pressrel/pressrelease15.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8. OTHER VOICES: Intro to Perl on Windows: Writing COM Components in Perl, ScriptHead: Webtrails

>Intro to Perl on Windows: Writing COM Components in Perl

When you strip away all the layers of marketing hype and industry jargon, Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) is simply a technology that allows objects written in different languages and used by different applications to interact and function together. WDVL delves into COM Components in this part of their Perl on Windows series. http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/Windows/index2.html WDVL.com, 000320

>ScriptHead: Webtrails

Author Rick Scott presents a Webtrails script that enables you to blaze a trail of order through that jungle of info chaos better known as the World Wide Web. http://www.zdnet.com/de ead/stories/articles/0,4413,2469515,00.html ZDNet.com, 000316

>Mozilla Interview: Brendan Eich and Mitchell Baker

Just before the announcement of Navigator 6 (see below), Mozilla developers Eich and Baker talked about Mozilla's future, its place in the open source movement, and XUL, the Extensible User- Interface Language that builds user interfaces in standards- compliant Web languages. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/03/10/mozilla.html OReillynet.com, 000314

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****************************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9. NET NEWS: Netscape: New Browser Near, No Internet Tax Likely Soon, WebTV Hit by Melissa-like Bug, Monkeyjunkies List to Shut Down, Amiga Back From the Dead (Again)

>Netscape: New Browser Near

Netscape announced Monday that Navigator 6 is expected to be available in a beta version within in the next 25 days. It will be powered by Gecko, an open source layout engine that is smaller in file size than previous versions and is designed to load pages faster. http://www.internetnews.com/prod-news/article/0,1087,9_324041,00.html InternetNews.com, 000320

>No Internet Tax Likely Soon

A U.S. federal commission appears ready to endorse a congressional extension of up to five years of the current moratorium on new Internet taxes. Agreement remains elusive on the contentious issue of whether states' sales taxes should apply to e-commerce. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565049730-c95 InfoBeat, 00318

>WebTV Hit by Melissa-like Bug

WebTV has been hit by a self-replicating bug that is wreaking havoc with the network's message boards and newsgroups, a situation that knocks back the company's claim that it is immune to viruses and security holes. This is one of the first incidents of a virus- like exploit being inflicted on a set-top box Internet appliance. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1576095.html CNET.com, 000317

>Monkeyjunkies List to Shut Down

Webmonkey.com has announced its intention to discontinue the popular Monkeyjunkies email discussion list from Monday 20th March. The discussion list, a forum for designers and developers of all skill levels to exchange ideas on Web design, has been a long running feature of Webmonkey. http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=1331&catid=1 Evolt.org, 000315

>Amiga Back From the Dead (Again)

On April 1, at Amiga 2000, a developer's show in St. Louis, Amiga's new owners will unveil a new developers' machine, according to company officials, who acquired the platform rights from Gateway last year. And this is no April fool's prank - the developers' box is intended as the first step to breathe life into the moribund platform. "It won't be a machine people just laugh at," said one Amiga fan. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34922,00.html Wired.com, 000320

That's it for this week, see you next time.

Andrew King Managing Editor, WebReference.com update@webreference.com

Eric Cook Assistant Editor, WebReference.com ecook@internet.com

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