(Aarron Walter) An elegantly designed site filled with engaging content is worth very little without an interested audience. An opt-in mailing list is one of the most effective methods of making contact with your audience and driving repeat traffic to your site. If visitors enjoy and trust your site
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Read and Write Open XML Files Using MS Office 2007
(Zeljko Svedic) With Office 2007, Microsoft decided to change the default application formats from old, proprietary, closed formats (DOC, XLS, PPT) to new, open and standardized XML formats (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). New formats share some similarities with old Office XML formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML
Getting Started with AJAX and the XMLHttpRequest Object
(Joshua Eichorn) The foundation that makes AJAX possible is the communication layer with the server. The most complete option for performing this communication is the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object. If XMLHttpRequest is not suitable to you, hidden IFrames and cookies can also be used. We will exam
Working with Strings of XML and XSL
(Aaron Dunnington) Recently, there have been a few posts on the .NET XML Forums concerning the usage of XML and XSL strings rather than streams.
The ultimate mashup — Web services and the semantic Web, Part 6: Give the user control
(Nicholas Chase) This is the final tutorial in a series that shows you how to create a mashup application. At this point you have a working application and the framework in place so that the system can use semantic reasoning to understand the services at its disposal. In this tutorial, you will give
Migrating to XForms
(Paul Sobocinski) In 2001, the W3C set out to create an XML standard for implementing user forms in XHTML by publishing the XForms 1.0 Working Draft. The purpose of XForms is to eventually replace existing HTML forms, which are limited in capability and notoriously difficult to develop in. If you a
Updating a Secondary Data Source in InfoPath Using AJAX
(S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton) Secondary data sources in Microsoft Office InfoPath are XML files, databases, SharePoint lists, or web services that have been linked to an InfoPath form, but for which no data is persisted in the form itself. Therefore, any changes made to the data of a secondary data source ar
Why XForms?
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) This article explains the problems XForms are intended to solve, including internationalization, accessibility, and device independence. If those problems are your problems too, then XForms is worth further investigation. If those aren’t your problems, then you may be better
Testing for Security in the Age of Ajax Programming
(Bryan Sullivan) Ajax programming is one of the most exciting new technologies in recent history. Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) allows a web page to refresh a small portion of its data from a web server, rather than being forced to reload and redraw the entire page as in traditional web pro
Real Web 2.0: Bookmarks? Tagging? Delicious!
(Uche Ogbuji) In this article, you’ll learn how to work with del.icio.us, one of the classic Web 2.0 sites, using Web XML feeds and JSON, in Python and ECMAScript. When you think of Web 2.0 technology, you might think of the latest Ajax tricks, but that is just a small part of the picture. More fund
