References

General references

These either point to a general resource, home page or reference which I've either used in creating this report or that by other means is relevant to it.

[INFOSTREAM]

InfoStream ASA - my current employer. Visit http://www.infostream.no/ for more information.

[DHTMLGUI]

Steven Champeon is the list administrator of a most excellent webdesign list called "webdesign-l" and co-author of "Building Dynamic HTML GUIs" together with David S Fox, (M&T Books, ISBN 0-7645-3267-7). To visit "DHTML GUIs" on the web drop by http://dhtml-guis.com/. To subscribe or find out more about webdesign-l visit http://www.hesketh.com/lists/

[JSGAMES]

Scott Porter is maintainer of http://www.javascript-games.org/ and his private homepage can be found on http://www.quick-silver.demon.co.uk/. Both are rich on DHTML and well worth a visit to admire.

[HTML]

HyperText Markup Language, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). General information and the specifications needed as your reference available through http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

[CSS]

Cascading Style Sheets, also defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For general information and specifications go to http://www.w3.org/Style/css/

[DOM]

Document Object Model. Refers to both the browsers' proprietary DOM and the DOM as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Information on the latter available on http://www.w3.org/DOM/. For specifcations on the browsers' DOMs visit DevEdge Online - Documentation & Information for Netscape Navigator's, and the Microsoft Developer Network Online Web Workshop for Microsoft Internet Explorer's.

[ECMASCRIPT]

Standard ECMA-262, ECMAScript Language Specification: http://www.ecma.ch/stand/ecma-262.htm

[CSS2]

Cascading Style Sheets, level 2, CSS2 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

[WD-POS]

Positioning HTML Elements with Cascading Style Sheets, W3C Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-positioning

[MSIE]

Microsoft Internet Explorer. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm

[NSCOMM]

Netscape Navigator/Communicator. http://home.netscape.com/communicator/v4.5/index.html

[MOZILLA]

"Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability." Predicted to be the main part of the next Netscape Navigator/Communicator. Visit http://www.mozilla.org/ to find out more.

[DHTMLZONE]

Found on http://www.dhtmlzone.com/index.html. Run by Macromedia. Has several good articles and a DHTML tutorial called "Superfly".

[SUPERFLY]

Dynamic HTML Zone's tutorial: http://www.dhtmlzone.com/tutorials/

[BRATTA]

Thomas Brattli's DHTML site called "Have you ever experienced Dynamic HTML?". Visit http://www.bratta.com/dhtml/

[STATMARKET]

Web site statistics: http://www.statmarket.com/

[THECOUNTER]

Web site statistics: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/

[FLASH]

Macromedia's Flash & Shockwave technology. Visit http://www.macromedia.com/ to learn more about Flash & Shockwave.

[MS-DA]

Microsoft DirectAnimation. For an "Introduction to DirectAnimation" drop by http://www.microsoft.com/directx/dxm/help/da/

Specification references

These point directly to a specific part of each reference describing methods, objects, properties, elements, attributes or any other code used or mentioned in the report.

[HTML-DIV]

The DIV element as specified by the W3C HTML 4.0 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.4

[HTML-ID]

The ID attribute as specified by the W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#adef-id

[D-ALL]

document.all, an MSIE DOM collection referring to all elements found in the current document. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/collections/all.asp

[D-LAYERS]

document.layers, an array in the Netscape DOM which enables access to all layers found in a document. http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/document.htm#1193842

[DOM-GID]

The method getElementById() as specified in the Document Object Model Level 1 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-html.html#ID-36113835

[MOVETO]

The method moveTo() as specified in the Netscape Client-Side JavaScript Reference: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/layer.htm#1195513

[S-LEFT]

The property style.left as specified in the Microsoft DHTML reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/left.asp

[S-TOP]

The property style.top as specified in the Microsoft DHTML reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/top_0.asp

[SETTIMEOUT]

The method setTimeout() as specified in Netscape's reference: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/window.htm#1203758, and Microsoft's reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/setTimeout.asp

[DATE]

The Date() object as specified in Netscape's reference: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/date.htm#1193137, and Microsoft's JScript reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/jscript/doc/jsobjdate.htm

[CANVAS]

The canvas, as specified in the CSS level 2 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/intro.html#q4

[SETINTERVAL]

The method setInterval() as specified in Netscape's reference: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/window.htm#1203669, and Microsoft's reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/setInterval.asp

[CLRTIMEOUT]

The method clearTimeout() as specified in Netscape's reference: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/window.htm#1201775, and Microsoft's reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/clearTimeout.asp

[CLRINTERVAL]

The method clearInterval() as specified in Netscape's reference: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/window.htm#1201732, and Microsoft's reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/clearInterval.asp