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Question: I own a 366MMX Pentium Intel II computer and the Internet still seems slow. Is there any way I can increase the speed of searches and downloading? Answer: The

Question: What are the features of a distributed client/server architecture? Answer: The Web is an ideal environment to implement applications that take advantage of a distributed client/server architecture. In fact,

Question: What is the command for printing out a column? Answer: In general, you’ll probably use an HTML table, with a single cell in each row, to display your data.

Question: How do I make an alert that pops up and says “this site best viewed with IE4 at 1024 x 768”? Answer: Making such a popup is easy. Just

Question: How can I change the title of a JavaScript alert box from “www.www.www (JavaScript Application)” to whatever I want? Answer: Simple?you can’t. Unfortunately, JavaScript coders don’t have any control

Question: I am about to embark on a new Web-based application using Internet Information Server (IIS), Active Server Pages (ASP), SQL Server, and Visual InterDev. So, the back end is

As with dates, different countries and regions use different symbols and formats when displaying currency values. Java 1.1 provides a simple facility for displaying a currency value in a manner

If you write CGI programs in Perl, you probably find yourself using a lot of long print statements for outputting HTML. HTML uses a lot of double quotes, so it’s

Perl’s regular expression substitution function is useful for CGI string manipulation, but using the default delimiter / can lead to leaning-toothpick syndrome if you use it for paths or URLs.