Newsletters May 30th, 1998

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All Change
Whats New?
The Bookstore
Beta Tester Program
Sponsorship



All Change
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Whats New?
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Writing a midi hifi system in JavaScript - Friday 29th May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js090/index.htm

Written by Martin Webb. When you want to create a JavaScript Midi
Hifi system that will enable midi or wav files to be played as if
they were a on a CD player. This article which appears on
Developer.com includes complete play, stop and pause control, and
single play, cycle play and random play. You can even view the time
played, time remaining, track time and total time.


Addressing Form Field Validation with Regular Expressions and
JavaScript 1.2 - Wednesday 27th May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js049/index.htm

Jason Nugent describes how to validate form fields using the new
JavaScript 1.2 Regular Expression methods. He also describes a method
for older browsers. Updated to reflect some snazzy new code written
by Stig Ahlberg that simplifies the code used in JavaScript 1.0 and
1.1


Moving Elements in DHTML -Tuesday 26th May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js089/index.htm

Written by Michael Bednarek. It is possible to position elements on
the page in both Microsoft and Netscape's implementation of Dynamic
HTML. By dynamically altering the positions of elements over time,
we can create simple animation effects. In this article you will
learn how


CGI/Perl Frequently Asked Questions - Monday 25th May 1998
http://irt.org/cgi/faq.htm

Introducing a brand new FAQ - the CGI/Perl FAQ maintained by Jason
Nugent.


An Introduction to Microsoft Layers - Saturday 16th May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js088/index.htm

Written by Paul Rundle. In this article we introduce you to layers
compatible with both NN4 and MSIE4. You will learn how to show images
and text using layers. Layers enable you to position text or pictures
anywhere on the page. The layers shown in this example are compatible
with both NN4 and MSIE4, however the section on altering the contents
of layers is only suitable for MSIE4, as NN4 does not provide support
for innerText, outerText, innerHTML and outerHTML layer properties.


An Introduction to Netscape Layers - Saturday 16th May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js087/index.htm

Written by Josh Sahrmann. This article introduces the basic concepts
about the LAYER tag introduced in Netscape Navigator 4. How to overlap
text and images, and how to embed html from another document inside
the current document.


RDF - What's in it for us - Saturday 16th May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js086/index.htm

Written by Janus Boye. RDF - the Resource Description Framework - is
a foundation for processing metadata; it provides interoperability
between applications that exchange machine-understandable information
on the Web. RDF emphasises facilities to enable automated processing
of Web resources. RDF metadata can be used in a variety of application
areas.


A JavaScript Web-Ring - Saturday 9th May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js085/index.htm

Have you ever wanted to link your site up with others using a
web-ring, where people can click on an image to go to the next or
previous site in the ring? Web-rings traditionally require server side
programming, this article describes how to combine JavaScript and HTML
to allow one person to manage the complete web-ring for as many sites
that you require.


An Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets - Saturday 9th May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js084/index.htm

Written by Jason Nugent. This article was born out of a need to
assimilate Janus Boye's CSS FAQ into an article so people interested
in beginning development with style sheets could have a reference in
order to get started. It is hoped that after this article is read,
you will have a better understanding of what CSS is, how it works,
and how it can benefit your site.


JavaScript Beginners Start Here - Saturday 2nd May 1998
http://irt.org/articles/js083/index.htm

A link up with Michael Bednareks' SiteCreator Channel has been
arranged. There are currently five JavaScript Beginner Articles
available on Michael Bednareks' SiteCreator Channel. If you find the
existing articles hard to follow then these will be just the thing
for you.



The Bookstore:
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@ http://www.irt.org/books/

Are you looking for a book? Take a look at the Bookstore:

CSS - http://irt.org/books/css.htm
Databases - http://irt.org/books/database.htm
HTML - http://irt.org/books/html.htm
JavaScript - http://irt.org/books/script.htm
Perl - http://irt.org/books/perl.htm

Do you have a favourite computer book that you would recommend to
others? Send an email to mailto:books@btinternet.com with your
recommendations and comments and we'll do the rest.



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