Web Development Zone

his isn’t the article that I set out to write. While researching another article (coming soon) I soon realized there just isn’t a lot of good material on how to

n last month’s article, I gave you an overview of some of Flash 8’s most exciting features. This month, I’ll show you how easy it is to achieve a long-desired

hen it comes to their GUIs, distributed applications have always observed a pendulum effect. The early enterprise distributed application comprised a heavy centralized server with a dumb terminal for data

he World Wide Web has traditionally used a book or slideshow metaphor as the basis for navigation between hyperlinks. Clicking on a link is like flicking from one page to

obust support for Web standards is now the norm rather than the exception. If you develop applications for a purely Microsoft-centric environment then you probably haven’t had to care much

very nerd loves the XMLHttpRequest. It supplies the functionality of which Web programmers’ dreams are made. Web applications start behaving like desktop applications. Things work as they’re “supposed to,” freeing

he time has come, at last, for a major update of Flash?Macromedia’s flagship animation and interactive development tool. Expected in early September, Flash 8 (Macromedia has officially dropped the useless

ast month I tried to encourage readers to embrace a couple of simple math concepts to expand the ol’ ActionScript skill set. I tried to show that by understanding some

s Web applications become more sophisticated, developers increasingly need to be able to incorporate dynamic graphics and animation. Unfortunately, Web browsers were originally designed to display static HTML; displaying dynamic