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This week has a distinct wireless flavor to it, as the wireless wave is breaking big time. Our HTML guru takes IBM to task on their Olympic Web site's accessibility, and Peter's got a great new DHTML chaser you can try. Congrats go out to our first Subscribe & Win! contest winners.
1. HTML WITH STYLE: The Seven Habits of Effective Web Sites 2. DHTML LAB: Building A Great DHTML Chaser 3. CONTEST: Signup & Win HoTMetaL Pro 6 and PhotoImpact 6! 4. SKUTTLEBUTT: Dynamic Caching and WAP 5. NEW LINKS: Content Delivery Networks, Internet Security Resources 6. OTHER VOICES: * Building an Internet Radio Station * WAP Wars Taking Shape 7. NET NEWS: * Web Phones May Revive Online Ads * Handspring morphs its handheld into a cell phone * First Destructive Palm Virus Reported * Olympic Athletes flock to Internet Cafe
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. HTML with Style: The Seven Habits of Effective Web Sites
FOR SALE: ALT tags for your site. Cost: $2 million, backordered with 12 months delivery. That's IBM's estimate to make their Olympic.com Web site more accessible. Stephanos Piperoglou ponders this and other matters in the making of great Web sites.
http://www.webreference.com/html/watch/seven/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. DHTML Lab: Building A Great DHTML Chaser
We kick off our new series devoted to real-world DHTML with a great DHTML chaser. Guest writer Aaron Boodman demonstrates how to create a DHTML layer that stays in your browser window during scrolling. Read on for his elegant solution.
http://webreference.com/dhtml/column37/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. CONTEST: Subscribe & Win HoTMetaL Professional 6.0 and Ulead's PhotoImpact 6!
Come one, come all, and see the amazing new WebRef Subscribe & Win contest! Sign up for the Webreference Update newsletter, and you could win a registered copy of HoTMetaL Professional 6.0 Web authoring tool from Softquad Software, Inc plus Ulead's PhotoImpact 6! Each week we'll draw new winners from our new subscribers - you could be next. Already a subscriber? Not a problem - just fill out the form, and you'll be automatically entered to win.
This week's winners include James Barrow of New Concord, KY, Francisco Flores of Palo Alto, CA, Kirk Strandberg of St. Helier UK and Mike Toombs of Wrightwood, CA. Congrats all, enjoy the software!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. SKUTTLEBUTT: Dynamic Caching and WAP
The buzz this week is next generation caching, and WAP.
>Dynamic Caching
Two new NG-cachers are Dynamai and XOSoft. Both cache not only static content, but also some dynamic content (a keyword search result for example). Dynamai features "dynamic caching" with a smart event-based reverse proxy system to speed content delivery. XOSoft offers a similar approach to bypassing Net bottlenecks with their CloneQuick technology.
Addendum: This just in and verified, XOSoft is the first CDN to offer delta encoding, sending only the changes to documents not the documents themselves. XOSoft is not a reverse proxy but a combination of mirrors and caches, the mirrors synchronize your content (including databases) worldwide, and the caches deliver fresh content from the edges. XOSoft claims that this technique offers a more scalable solution than Akamai.
For links to these and other CDNs see our news links below.
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>WAP
If you gauge the popularity of a technology by the number of news stories and new books on the shelves, PHP and WAP must be hot. The Wireless Application Protocol has been around since 1997 but is just recently receiving mainstream attention. Created by Erisson, Motorola, Nokia and Phone.com, the WAP standard is designed to be a universal open specification for wireless content delivery.
There's actually a WAP backlash now, pundits are wondering how useful surfing the Web from your phone can be. For small, discrete, frequently changing chunks of info like stocks, sports, and news I can see how WAP would be useful. Two good books on WAP are:
"Professional WAP" from Wrox Press (also has a Beginning WAP prequel) is an in-depth how-to for developers. (It had the WAP MIME types listed for example). ISBN: 1-861004-0-44
For an intro to WAP try "Wireless Web Development" from apress.com is a higher level intro to wireless development for HTML, WAP, and HDML. ISBN: 1-893115-20-8
We are readying our own mobile feeds, so stay tuned.
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5. NEW LINKS: Content Delivery Networks, Internet Security Resources
>Content Delivery Networks
Want to speed up your Web site? Try caching on for size. The newest CDNs like Dynamai and XOSoft offer "dynamic caching" for improved throughput. http://www.webreference.com/internet/software/site_management/cdns.html
>Internet Security Resources
Is your data secure? Find out with our updated security links. http://webreference.com/internet/security.html
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. OTHER VOICES: Building an Internet Radio Station, WAP Wars Taking Shape
>Building an Internet Radio Station
Thinking of setting up your own Internet radio station? Here's an overview, including the technical and legal angles. http://wdvl.internet.com/Multimedia/WebRadio/ WDVL.com, Sept. 25, 2000
>WAP Wars Taking Shape
Two surprising events last week indicate that tiny Geoworks could win its battle to collect patent royalties on WAP. But it - and WAP - could lose the war for user acceptance to other technologies, potentially including the i-mode. allNetDevices.com, Sept. 25, 2000 http://www.allnetdevices.com/industry/reality/2000/09/25/outcome_of.html
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8. NET NEWS: Web Phones May Revive Online Ads, Handspring morphs its handheld into a cell phone, First Destructive Palm Virus Reported, Olympic Athletes flock to Internet Cafe
>Web Phones May Revive Online Ads
Customers with Net phones, especially DoCoMo's i-mode service, have a click-through rate three times higher than that of PCs. http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,18828,00.html Industry Standard, Sept. 25, 2000
>Handspring morphs its handheld into a cell phone
Handspring today officially introduced its VisorPhone, an add-on cartridge that turns its Visor handheld computer into a cell phone. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2861917.html CNET's News.com, Sept. 25, 2000
>First Destructive Palm Virus Reported
McAfee has found the first Net device virus that destroys data. http://www.allnetdevices.com/wired/news/2000/09/22/first_destructive.html AllNetDevices.com, Sept. 22, 2000
>Olympic Athletes flock to Internet Cafe
The "Surf Shack" at the Olympic village in Sydney has drawn thousands of athletes daily. http://www.usatoday.com/olympics/sydney/tech/fs11.htm USA Today, Sept. 25, 2000
That's it for this week, see you next time.
Andrew King Managing Editor, WebReference.com update@webreference.com
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