September 5, 1998

You can read and write arrays quickly from files using Put and Get. This approach is faster than reading and writing the array one entry at a time: Dim arr(1

Black and white printers cannot print gray lines, but they can dither to create gray areas. To create a gray border around an area, draw thin gray boxes with DrawStyle

Don’t you hate that VB5’s Setup Wizard doesn’t include all the files you reference in your application? For example, if you access a picture or animation file at run time

Many sites include rollover effects to make images change when the mouse moves over them. However, sometimes there’s an unsightly delay while the second graphic is downloaded from the server.

If you’re not careful about how you include Java applets in your Web pages, people who use browsers that don’t support Java (or who have deliberately switched off Java support)

Older browsers that don’t support HTML frames won’t display anything when they attempt (and fail) to load a page containing the code to set up frames. So a good design

To save time, browsers often load a frequently visited page from a local cache on the client’s computer rather than request it from the relevant Web server. The catch with

HTML’s page layout features are limited for older browsers–tables provide one of the few ways you can force text or graphics to appear in particular positions. Another addition to your

The terms “undefined behavior” and “unspecified behavior” are not interchangeable. Undefined behavior indicates that an implementation may behave unpredictably when a program reaches a certain state, which almost without exception