Subject pages attached to craig:web/prog

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1.	ReallyBig.com Links to sites of specific interest to web builders. Included are the best places to find free clipart, animations, backgrounds, icons and buttons, as well as information about counters, CGI, Java, icons, promoting your site. URL: http://www.reallybig.com/reallybig.shtml
2.	Big Nose Bird Resources for building websites. URL: http://www.bignosebird.com/
3.	W3Schools: Building a Website After you have studied Web Building School, you will know how to build a professional web site. You will also know how to prepare yourself for the future, and how to use new technologies like XHTML and XML. URL: http://www.W3Schools.com/site/default.asp
4.	Creating Encoded Name & Value Pairs Have you ever wanted to submit form data without using a form? Have you tried and failed? Or have you gotten fed up with handcrafting the encoded URL data and given up? Then this article is for you. Convert from Latin characters into URL encoded hex values. URL: http://www.webreview.com/1999/04_09/webauthors/04_09_99_4.shtml

5.	What the Heck is CGI? This website offers an introductory course on CGI, in friendly, easy-to-understand language. The course starts with "What is an HTML form?" and continues through writing CGI programs in Perl. Lessons cover how HTML forms work, using the form data within the program, how to get the program to use the data, using the variables in the program, troubleshooting, writing to files, parsing and interpreting, subroutines, and error checking. URL: http://linguistic-funland.com/scripts/Class
6.	CGI City This site has a huge collection of resources on Perl and CGI for both novices and advanced programmers. For webmasters, the site offers a collection of CGI and Perl scripts, many of which are free, including banner ads, bulletin boards, chat software, counters, forms, guestbooks, password protection, shopping carts, and more. URL: http://icthus.net/CGI-City
7.	GNU Cgicc GNU Cgicc is an ANSI C++ compliant class library that greatly simplifies the creation of CGI applications for the World Wide Web. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/cgicc/cgicc.html
8.	Form-based File Upload in HTML [rfc1867] This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. URL: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/html/rfc1867.txt
9.	The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1 Specification for CGI programs. URL: http://cgi-spec.golux.com/draft-coar-cgi-v11-03-clean.html
10.	QUE book on CGI Scripts The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is one of the most useful tools in a Webmaster's kit. Whether you're the lone maintainer of a single home page on someone else's machine or the Webmaster of a huge domain, you'll find that CGI is essential for anything beyond presenting static text and graphics. URL: http://medialab.di.unipi.it/doc/CGI/httoc.htm
11.	NCSA CGI Script Output The script sends its output to stdout. This output can either be a document generated by the script, or instructions to the server for retrieving the desired output. URL: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/out.html
12.	O'Reilly Online: Web Client Programming with Perl If the Web were just a matter of retrieving documents blindly, then HTTP 0.9 would have been sufficient for all our needs. But as it turns out, there's a whole set of information we'd like to exchange in addition to the documents themselves. A client might ask the server, "What kind of document are you sending?" Or, "I already have an older copy of this document--do I need to bother you for a new one?" URL: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch03.html
13.	Caching Tutorial A Web cache sits between Web servers (or origin servers) and a client or many clients, and watches requests for HTML pages, images and files (collectively known as objects) come by, saving a copy for itself. Then, if there is another request for the same object, it will use the copy that it has, instead of asking the origin server for it again. URL: http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/
14.	RFC 2183 Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field URL: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2183.html

15.	Cookie Specification Technicals of browser cookies. URL: http://portal.research.bell-labs.com/~dmk/cookie.html
16.	Persistent Client State HTTP Cookies [Netscape ] Netscape's specification for cookies. URL: http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
17.	Cookie Central Provides full information upon Internet Cookies. URL: http://www.cookiecentral.com/
18.	Using cookies A step-by-step guide to using cookies to analyze user activity & create custom pages URL: http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/nw-02-1997/nw-02-cookiehowto.html

19.	WebReview.com's Style Sheet Reference Guide Trying to keep track of how well CSS works on different platforms can be a daunting task. What might work in Netscape for the Mac might not work in IE for the same platform or for Windows 95! Throw in keeping track of changing CSS standards and your head can really end up spinning. URL: http://www.webreview.com/style/index.shtml
20.	ZVON CSS Tutorial [tutorial 2] How to separate contents and form. URL: http://www.zvon.org/xxl/CSSTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html
21.	CSS Validator CSS Validator which checks the quality of your CSS setup. URL: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

22.	HTML Form Tags Examples [Merchant's Encyclopedia of HTML] Description of the various form tags with examples. URL: http://www.mountaindragon.com/html/forms.htm
23.	HTML 4.0 Elements [Web Design Group] [organizational list] A complete listing of HTML 4.0 elements sorted alphabetically. URL: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/alist.html
24.	The Bare Bones Guide to HTML URL: http://werbach.com/barebones/download.html
25.	Dynamic HTML URL: http://www.dhtmlzone.com
26.	Sunah's Webdemo This website solves the problem by documenting the features of all levels of HTML defined by W3C and describing how they fit into the current standard. The site includes an introduction to HTML, the technical details of Level 0, 1, 2, and 3, and demos. URL: http://pobox.com/~sunah
27.	Restricting access using robots.txt You can use a special file called robots.txt to protect directories and files in your website from being indexed by search engines and other web crawlers. URL: http://www.interferenza.net/support/articles/spiders.shtml
28.	Diacritic decoration Adds random diacriticals to regular ASCII text: Ţĥẻ q̃ǖįĉk̉ b́r̃ŏw̉ñ f̃ỡx̀ j̀ųm̃p̉s̃ ỏv́ĕr̀ t̉ħè l̉ãz̉ỹ ďơg̀. URL: http://www.mcgees.org/cgi-bin/decorate.cgi
29.	Ultimate Cool Characters Lots of HTML codes for characters with diacritical marks, math symbols, etc. URL: http://www.theworldofstuff.com/characters/

30.	HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother ? [Alan Richmond] Most pages on the web don't comply with the W3C's HTML specifications. In some cases this is because their authors wanted to take advantage of proprietary extensions. URL: http://wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/Standards/
31.	HTML Validation [Alan Richmond] Article on HTML file validation. URL: http://wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/Validation/
32.	Website Garage Finds errors in HTML format of your pages. URL: http://websitegarage.netscape.com/
33.	HTML 4.01 Specification W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999 URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/

34.	NCSA Begninner's Guide to HTML [PDF] an authoritative and slightly verbose guide to HTML. The presentation is a bit Spartan, with few visual examples, but you can download it in PDF. In the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerP1.html
35.	Web Tutor Various HTML tutorials. URL: http://www.science.smith.edu/help/webtut/other/toc/toc-tutor.html

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HTML5 demo news [html5rocks] [apple html5] Earlier this month, Apple unveiled a new site to showcase HTML5. On it, Apple showed off a number of impressive web demos coded using only HTML5 technologies. However, at least on the main page, these demos were restricted to working on only Apple’s Safari web browser. So now Google is countering with its own HTML5 site — called, get this, HTML5Rocks. URL: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/22/html5rocks-google/

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Mozilla tutorial for HTML 5 HTML5 is the latest evolution in the standard that defines HTML. While the HTML5 specification is not yet finalized and still subject to change, Mozilla and other browser vendors have begun implementing some parts of it. The articles linked here describe the parts of HTML5 that are already supported by Mozilla's Gecko engine, used by Firefox and many other products. URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/HTML5

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Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software Image maps allow a web developer to associate actions with regions of an image. A user's click may activate a link to another page, run a server-side script, or launch a client-side JavaScript program. In the typical nerdy hipster parlance of the Web, these regions are known as "hot spots." URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prowg/chapter/ch08.html

39.	The JavaScript Source Scripts available for use, including a password checker. URL: http://javascript.internet.com
40.	XS4ALL JavaScript programs ebullets (old version), other interesting scripts including slideshow. URL: http://html.xs4all.be/programmer/scriptarchives/jsarchive
41.	meome.de javascript links Unter dieser Rubrik finden Sie Sites mit empfehlenswerten Einsteigerkursen, die Ihnen den Einstieg in JavaScript erleichtern. Der große Vorteil von Online-Kursen bei Programmiersprachen wie JavaScript liegt auf der Hand: Sie sehen die Anwendung der Befehle sofort und lernen somit praxisnah. URL: http://www.meome.de/app/de/portal_bookmark.jsp/45823.html
42.	Advanced JavaScript Tutorials URL: http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/index6.htm
43.	JavaScript Tooltips A cross-browser Tooltip JavaScript to create tooltips (information popup boxes like this one). These crossbrowser JavaScript Tooltips and their behavior can be customized in multiple ways, and may contain plain text as well as HTML, such as images or line breaks etc.. URL: http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm
44.	Learning Javascript Visually [lesson 1] Beginning Javascript with diagrams. URL: http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/learning-javascript-visually.php

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S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification This document describes a protocol for adding cryptographic signature and encryption services to MIME data. The MIME standard [MIME-SPEC] provides a general structure for the content type of Internet messages and allows extensions for new content type applications. URL: http://www.antionline.com/cgi-bin/rfc/DisplayRFC.cgi?rfc=2311

46.	ASPN PHP Cookbook [Mayan Calendar] The PHP Cookbook is a repository for user-contributed PHP recipes, all of which are reviewed by the Cookbook editor, Shane Caraveo. The code in the PHP Cookbook is freely available for review and use by all. URL: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/PHP
47.	Introductory Tutorial for PHP Chapter 2: Here we would like to show the very basics of PHP in a short simple tutorial. This text only deals with dynamic webpage creation with PHP, though PHP is not only capable of creating webpages. See the section titled What can PHP do for more information. URL: http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php
48.	PHP Documentation [English] [Japanese] The PHP manual is available online in a selection of languages. You can choose between the printer friendly and graphically designed versions. URL: http://www.php.net/docs.php
49.	PHP Quick Reference Tips Cool Quick Reference Tips On this page, you can find many neat tips and tricks to optimize your usage of our quick reference features. URL: http://www.php.net/tips.php

50.	Big Nose Bird SSI documentation Basic description of SSI and list of reference links. URL: http://www.bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml

51.	The Web3d Repository. A Browser or Plug-in is an application, or Web browser plug-in, used to view VRML and/or other 3D files. Multiple browsers are available, supporting features in the various Web3d specifications. Some VRML browsers support additional vendor-specific extensions. URL: http://www.web3d.org/vrml/browpi.htm
52.	Cosmo Software VRML Player [Win 95/2000] [download page for Win 95/2000] For Windows and Mac. URL: http://www.cai.com/cosmo/

53.	XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) W3C Recommendation 26 January 2000, revised 1 August 2002. This specification defines the Second Edition of XHTML 1.0, a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and three DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4. The semantics of the elements and their attributes are defined in the W3C Recommendation for HTML 4. These semantics provide the foundation for future extensibility of XHTML. Compatibility with existing HTML user agents is possible by following a small set of guidelines. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
54.	XHTML.ORG Unofficial information about xhtml. XHTML is an acronym for "eXtensible HyperText Markup Language", a reformulation of HTML 4.0 as an XML 1.0 application. XHTML provides the framework for future extensions of HTML and aims to replace HTML in the future. URL: http://www.xhtml.org/
55.	XHTML Basic W3C Recommendation 19 December 2000. The XHTML Basic document type includes the minimal set of modules required to be an XHTML host language document type, and in addition it includes images, forms, basic tables, and object support. It is designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes. The document type is rich enough for content authoring. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/