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FEBRUARY 16, 1999
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New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:
1. 3D ANIMATION WORKSHOP: Movin' on Up
2. DOC JAVASCRIPT: Search Remote Builder
3. NEW FEATURE: Cool Tools
4. UPDATE: Three-level Related Menus
5. DHTML DINER: Browser-specific Style Sheets
6. NEW LINKS: VRML Tutorials, HTML Validators, Imagemap
Resources
7. NEW TREND: The Slashdot Effect
8. OTHER VOICES:
* New Java Boutique Section: Java Jini
* The Latest from the Browser Trenches
9. NEWSLETTER NEWS: L-Soft to Lyris
Spread the word! Feel free to send a copy of this newsletter to
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1. 3D ANIMATION WORKSHOP: Movin' on Up
Walk this way to learn how to use forward kinematics to pose your
character's arms. By Robert Polevoi.
http://www.webreference.com/3d/lesson60/
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2. DOC JAVASCRIPT: Search Remote Builder
Put an end to old fashion Web searching with the Doc's new search
remote builder. Wherever you're surfing just select some text,
click a button, and presto you're searching the Web with your
favorite search engines. By Dr. Yehuda Shiran.
http://www.webreference.com/js/search/
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3. NEW FEATURE: Cool Tools
With Yehuda's new search remote tool we're launching a new section
today we call Cool Tools. These Web-based webmaster tools are
designed to make your life easier. Creating and configuring our
most popular scripts is a snap now. Want a hierarchical menu? No
problem, go configure and cut and paste. Want a popup window or
search remote? Piece of cake.
To celebrate this momentous event, try out our new Browser Sniffer,
that reports useful info about your browser, and key object and
method detection routines essential from cross-browser degradable
scripts. Look for more cool tools soon.
http://www.webreference.com/tools/
http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/
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4. UPDATE: Three-level Related Menus
By popular demand we've extended our related menus into another
dimension. Fit three levels of site hierarchy into one line of
popup menus with this new degradable technique. By Andrew King.
http://www.webreference.com/dev/menus/
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5. DHTML DINER: Browser-specific Style Sheets
A new, elegant approach to creating browser-specific style sheets
that avoids clumsy document writes and browser detection.
By Peter Belesis.
http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/diner/ssheets/
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6. NEW LINKS: VRML Tutorials, HTML Validators, Imagemap Resources
>VRML Tutorials
Still want to learn VRML? Got those cool 3D shades handy? It's not
too late...for you or the language. Check out all the material
available online and start your journey into virtual reality.
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/vrml/tutorials.html
>HTML Validators
I'm okay, you're okay. You're good enough, you're smart enough,
and gosh darnit, people like you. But do Web browsers like your HTML?
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/html/validation.html
>Imagemap Resources
Make a map, any map with our collection of resources at your side.
You'll never be lost in cyberspace again.
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/graphics/imagemaps.html
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7. NEW TREND: The Slashdot Effect
Open source is hot right now. In the February 1st Update I reviewed
O'Reilly's new Open Sources book and talked about the growing open
source movement. One of the challenges of free open source code is
coming up with business models that make money. Red Hat packages
Linux with service, Gecko will ultimately drive more traffic to
netscape.com, and Slashdot has another angle, report the "news for
nerds," in part about open source projects like Linux. Slashdot has
become so popular that folks have coined a new term for the lucky
sites that get linked on slashdot's front page, the "slashdot effect."
Slashdot.org is the brainchild of Rob Malda, aka "Commander Taco",
a 22-year old computer science major from Holland Michigan. Malda
launched the site two years ago to share news he found cool or
worthy, or as his tag line says "stuff that matters." His site
receives over 70,000 visitors a day, including many journalists
from InfoWorld, Time, the New York Times (and yours truly) who check
the site daily for the latest tech news.
The "slashdot effect" kicks in when an average of 30,000 or so
Slashdotters suddenly descend on an unsuspecting Web server
referenced from Malda's site. One webmaster even wrote an article
documenting the slashdot effect complete with comparison graphs
for other sites like freshmeat.net.
Slashdot is a open-source-like project in itself. Rather than
writing all the news (which can get expensive) Malda and tens of
thousands of friends report the news and stories as they happen.
Slashdot is really a Web-ized BBS with a friendly face, as readers
can post stories and responses in near real-time. That's the appeal
of slashdot, it has the immediacy of a newsgroup or BBS only in a
friendlier package, a Web site that hums. In the true spirit of open
source, Rob has started giving away the source for the site, so
that others can create similar sites.
Slashdot takes up most of Malda's time now, "I don't have a life.
I've only left my house three times in the last week." He's still
trying to refine his business model to pay for it all, but would
consider an offer from a cooperative buyer.
http://www.slashdot.org
http://www.freshmeat.net
Shashdot Effect article and thread:
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/990216/industry/it1.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/02/15/1249237.shtml
The Slashdot Effect - An Analysis of Three Internet Publications
http://ssadler.phy.bnl.gov/adler/SDE/SlashDotEffect.html
WebReference Update, Feb. 1, 1999
http://www.webreference.com/new/990201.html
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8. OTHER VOICES: New Java Boutique Section: Java Jini
The Latest from the Browser Trenches
>New Java Boutique Section: Java Jini
The Java Jini section of the Java Boutique will focus on the
emerging technology of Jini, which is destined to bring
Internet connectivity to a palm top near you!
http://javaboutique.internet.com/jini.html
>The Latest from the Browser Trenches
The browser war plods on, with Netscape and Microsoft continuing
to make steady improvements. Explorer 5.0 and Communicator 4.5
offer no revolutionary changes from their predecessors, but with
a likable lizard called Gecko coming up strong, big things are
definitely expected soon.
http://WDVL.com/Software/Browsers/Trenches/
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9. NEWSLETTER NEWS: L-Soft to Lyris
This week we've switched list providers from L-Soft to Lyris. Lyris
will be handling all of internet.com's newsletters soon, including
the daily HTML versions. You shouldn't notice much of a difference,
except signing on and off should be much easier now. To sign on just
send an email to:
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That's it for this week, see you next time.
Andrew King
Managing Editor, WebReference.com
update@webreference.com
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