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This week we look at a brief overview of Ajax, some relevant JavaScript 1.3 enhancements, how to run the example and using the script within your own Web page.
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JavaScripts are usually written to accomplish a given task, such as creating a rotating picture gallery, or to validate a form. For each task, a separate script is necessary. Often, a script is called using an onload function. Using the onload event handler can sometimes be a bit tricky. Check out this easy, fool-proof method for use in your next script.
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Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson launches a new subseries surrounding components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this two-part article, we introduce dimensions, and focus upon property settings for Database Dimensions.
Database Journal
The W3C has published three new semantic Web standards for SPARQL, with the goal of making it easier to share and reuse data across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.
Semantic Web
AOL has released an open source Web performance tool called Pagetest. Pagetest is an Internet Explorer plug-in that measures and analyzes the performance of Web pages. It features waterfall timing graphs, optimization checklists, and more granular details than competing software.
Website Optimization
According to this Web site, it was "... founded in April 2006 with the goal of chronicling encounters with aliens, UFOs, and all thing extraterrestrial.... We make no claims about the truth or veracity of any of the stories posted on this site. We'll leave it to you to decide whether we are alone in the universe." C'mon, you know you want to check it out. Hey, are you sure we're really alone?
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Yahoo is planning to announce cutbacks later this month that will likely lead to hundreds of job losses at the nearly 14,000 employee company, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday.
internetnews, January 22, 2008
For Web developers and surfers who discovered that Internet Explorer 7.0 "broke" some (or many) of their favorite Web sites, Microsoft is working to avoid that problem in version 8 by letting Web site developers signal to IE how standards-compliant it ought to be with their pages.
internetnews, January 23, 2008
Ten years ago, Netscape announced plans to release version 4 of the Netscape Communicator Web browser under an open-source license, laying the foundation for the emergence of Mozilla's Firefox web browser.
Ars Technica, January 23, 2008
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Lee Underwood
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