(Edmon Begoli) Wouldn’t it be nice if you could turn your plain old Web pages into something more exciting? Isn’t it time to inject some life into your decade-old Web technologies? If you feel the need for the fresher, richer, and more interactive Web experience, get to know AJAX.

(Joe Chang) One of SQL Server’s deficiencies when using XML queries is the lack of statistics capability in the XML driver. This is surprising because the ODBC API contains a function for providing statistics on remote data sources. SQL Server defaults to the fixed assumed row count values for r

As part of the ongoing revision of the Data Reference Model (DRM) for the U.S. Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), the DRM Working Group has issued a new DRM XML Schema for public review. Working Group members are eager to receive feedback from reviewers as they work toward the planned October 17

One of my favorite ways of studying Web application usability is to watch my wife navigate around a Web site. She can make her way around the Internet quite well, but she knows little about the low-level technical aspects (what she calls “the boring stuff”) that make it all work.

(Uche Ogbuji) Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial series has shown how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic and advanced techniques. Although some people see XSLT and CSS as opposing technologies, they are actually very complementary. CSS cannot, and is not

(Dan Wellman) Learn about XUL, a subset of XML used to describe user interfaces, that helps you to make rich user interfaces with nothing more complicated than a text editor. In the fifth part of this series you will receive an introduction to XPCOM, the object model used by XUL, and take a clos

Web services are a set of emerging standards that enable interoperable integration between heterogeneous information technology processes and systems. You can think of them as a new breed of Web application that is self-contained and self-describing, and which can provide functionality and interoper

(Micah Dubinko) To open with a quote like, “The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from,” would be too cliché; besides, the gritty technocratic description from Neuromancer feels more appropriate to this week’s discussion.

(Wei-Meng Lee) It seems everybody is talking about Ajax these days. The technology behind Ajax is hardly new, yet some really ‘killer’ new applications of XMLHttpRequest object have emerged recently, and these have breathed new life and excitement into the concept of client-side image refresh.

(Peter Galli) The royalty-free license under which Microsoft plans to make its upcoming new Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the GNU General Public License and will thus prevent many free and open-source software projects from using the formats, community officials say.