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What's New at irt.org
More Content at irt.org
Updates at irt.org
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What's New at irt.org - http://www.irt.org/whatsnew.htm
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117. Friday 18th September 1998 - Introduction to Visual Basic Scripting
(VBScript)
http://www.irt.org/articles/js117/
Lawrence Elliot introduces VBScript to irt.org, describing the major
difference between VBScript and JavaScript, and describing how to include
VBScript in a web page

116. Monday 14th September 1998 - Dynamic Positioning
http://www.irt.org/articles/js116/
Martin Webb describes how to use the positioning abilities of Dynamic HTML
to create dynamic positioning, dynamic 'tooltips', placement, movement, and
clipping effects

115. Friday 11th September 1998 - Linux#2 Net Connection
http://www.irt.org/articles/js115/
Dr. Tarique Sani tells you how to connect your Linux Machine to the Internet
in three ever increasing simpler methods.

114. Friday 4th September 1998 - HTML #4 - Advanced Page Layout
http://www.irt.org/articles/js114/
Michael Bednarek describes how to use tables and frames to layout web pages
on the screen.

113. Tuesday 1st September 1998 - Java #6 I Wanna hold your hand - longer
http://www.irt.org/articles/js113/
In this 2nd article Dr. Tarique Sani holds your hand through creation to
your first Java Applet.


More Content at irt.org
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Resources:
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We now have a dedicated irt.org Major-domo mailing list suitable for
discussing Internet Related Technologies - to find out more visit:
http://www.irt.org/utility/charter.htm - we are hoping to be able to bring a
digest version at a later date

We have expanded the Bulletin Board area on irt.org - due to the existing
irt.org BBS (http://www.irt.org/bbs/) we have installed a new Discussion
software package that allows more areas to be set up - please move your
discussions away from the old BBS to the new one at:
http://www.irt.org/discus/messages/board-topics.html

FAQs:
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Sunday 20th September 1998 - HTML Frequently Asked Questions updated
http://www.irt.org/html/faq.htm
The HTML FAQ is slowly but surely growing in size...

Thursday 17th September 1998 - Virtual Reality Modeling Language FAQ
http://www.irt.org/vrml/faq.htm
Rafael Coletti brings another section to irt.org - the Virtual Reality
Modeling Language (VRML) Frequently Asked Questions, starting with a list of
introductory questions - with answers!

Saturday 12th September 1998 - JavaScript Bugs and Not-A-Bug
http://www.irt.org/script/faq.htm
The JavaScript FAQ has been extended by Michel Plungjan to include new Bug
Reports on the Bugs page along with a new Not-A-Bug page


Games:
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Tuesday 1st September 1998 - JavaScript Games - Hnefatafl and Reversi
http://www.irt.org/games/all.htm
Keith Drakard presents two new JavaScript games - Hnefatafl and Reversi (one
solution to the JavaScript challenge)


Game Techniques:
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As promised the games section is expanding to show good programming
techniques using all programming languages available for the internet:

Friday 11th September 1998 - Game Coding - JavaScript Movement
http://www.irt.org/games/howto/ex002.htm
Keith Drakard adds a new Game Coding Technique - JavaScript Movement which
describes how to simulate rolling dice and how to move images around a
playing board

Tuesday 1st September 1998 - Game Coding Techniques
http://www.irt.org/games/howto.htm
Keith Drakard starts a new section on Game Coding Techniques, which brings
together example JavaScript code used in the JavaScript Games, along with
articles on how to create JavaScript Games themselves.


Software Reviews:
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Saturday 12th September 1998 - Allaire Homesite 3.0.1
http://www.irt.org/software/homesite/
Allaire Homesite 3.0.1 - reviewed by Rafael Coletti -
One of the hardest things to find is a comfortable and powerful HTML editor
which simplifies your work in creating web sites. However Homesite 3.0.1
is not a tool for newbies in HTML - if you are just starting you should
instead try an easy to use (WYSIWYG) HTML editor such as Dreamweaver or
FrontPage. This is because in order to create pages with Homesite, you'll
need a good knowledge of HTML tags and their parameters.



Updates at irt.org
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Sunday 13th September 1998 - CSS Frequently Asked Questions UPDATED
http://www.irt.org/css/faq.htm
The Cascading Style Sheet FAQ has been updated by Janus Boye - it even
includes answers on Aural Style Sheets - for browsers that talk!

13. Friday 4th September 1998 - Re-directing access within Frames UPDATED
http://www.irt.org/articles/js013/
Stops direct access to pages that should be visited through frames. Updated
to fix a fault in Opera browsers.

20. Thursday 3rd September 1998 - Dropdown Menus #2 UPDATED
http://www.irt.org/articles/js020/
Describes multiple select options, and how to add, remove and replace
options. Updated to fix a fault in the code and to add an enhancement to the
update of drop down select fields.



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