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Saturday, March 23, 2002
Russ Lipton: How to Create Navigation Links.
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>Non-techies and HTML  [Scripting News]comments < 8:17:22 AM
>I've been reading Steve Pilgrim's weblog, consistently, he's the designated HTML newbie of the Radio community. For Steve, I wish that HTML today were as simple and approachable as it was when I got on board, in 1994. Even then, for a guy like me, a commercial developer with a computer science degree, the leap wasn't easy. Today, it's so much harder, esp with all the confusing advice from techies over the basic stuff. [Scripting News] comments < 8:17:06 AM
>Now, the thing that made it all come into focus for me was a simple mail-to-web app run by Ohio State University. I remember it so well. It was January 1, 1995. I knew how to use Eudora to send Internet mail (although that was a leap from AppleLink, which I had been using up till 1994). The rules were simple. Send a message to their mail server. It sends back a URL of a page containing the text in your email. So I sent it a simple message. Hello Dave. As I expected the page that it sent back a pointer to contained just that text. OK, so I went to HotWired's home page, did a view source, copied the text, pasted it into an email message and sent it to Ohio. Back came a URL. I went to the page. Wow. There was the HotWired home page with a few broken images. Bing! [Scripting News] comments < 8:16:53 AM
>For some reason that was the only impossibly difficult concept for me to grasp. A website was just a bunch of text somehow stored so that some piece of software (a Web server) could find the text and then shoot it out to a Web browser. The server wasn't doing anything very complex. The complex stuff was in the text that it was sending (and even that wasn't very complex). [Scripting News] comments < 8:16:34 AM
>So maybe the answer for the incurably inquisitive, like Steve, is for us oldbies to put up an app like the Ohio State app that shows them how the Web works at its most basic level. Interestingly, Steve and everyone else that uses Radio has exactly such an app, sitting on their desktop. It's called Radio. [Scripting News] comments < 8:16:12 AM
>IBM's new network processor to challenge Intel.. EE Times: IBM's new network processor to challenge Intel. [Hack the Planet] comments < 8:15:35 AM
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