This page provides links to INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE SITES. Included are links to sites that are...
- Dedicated to specific information on VBSCRIPT
- Offering insight into (and opinions on) IE4
- Devoted to unlocking the mysteries of DHTML
- Highlighting the latest in IE4 WEBCASTING techniques
- Introducing UP AND COMING Web technologies
Click any link on the right to scroll to its list of relate site links.--->
WCP Home Page
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The VBScript Language Guide
Don't let the name of this link fool you. This documentation from Microsoft only describes some of VBScript's language elements. Of the missing elements, most visible are the tried-and-true objects in the original JavaScript-based object hierarchy, like "window," "document," and the like. Although Microsoft still offers a link to the Scripting Object Model (that roughly documented these elements in times past), following that link now produces an HTTP "Object Not Found" error. Instead, Microsoft offers limited documentation of the new DHTML Elements Model (see DHTML Links). Unfortunately, the data in both references is sketchy, so many users will need a book like the VBSCRIPT SOURCEBOOK
This is an old document published when VBScript first appeared on the scene more than a year ago--and doesn't seem to have been updated since. But, newcomers may find its examples and explanations more illuminating than Microsoft's sparse language reference material.
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Third Party Review of What's New and Hot in IE 4.0
A fairly thorough overview of the joys and blessings of IE4 by a third-party (but not very critical) reviewer.
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Internet Explorer 4.0 Demos
Microsoft continues to strut its stuff with more examples of the dynamic aspects of IE4, including old standbys like rollover effects, hierarchical menus, data-binding, and several animation effects. Although Microsoft has re-written a lot of the example code on its site in JavaScript (or JScript, or whatever)...view source on these examples for the occasional glimpse of VBScript in action.
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Using IE Logos on Your Website
If you want to display a DOWNLOAD IE4 NOW button on your site, you can get a copy (along with instructions for installing it) at this link. It's easy to do, has few requirements to follow, and--once installed--permits you to register for free as a first level member of Microsoft's Site Builder Network. You'll find all the details (including how to complete the SBN registration) at the other end of this link.
- Frequently Asked Questions About DHTML
- The DHTML Model in IE 4.0
- IE4 DHTML vs. Navigator 4 DHTML
- The DHTML Object Model
A general overview of IE4's approach to DHTML that provides a nice introduction, but doesn't go very deep--although it does manage to introduce the idea of the DHTML ELEMENTS MODEL. (Gee...can we come up with a few more names for IE4's architectural scripting model?) Includes a JavaScript example. Hey...where's the VBScript?!!
- The DHTML Object Model, Revisited
Another general lay-of-the-DHTML-land article by the lead developer of IE4's DHTML extensions, Michael Wallent.
This page is worth a look, since it reveals a few tricks of the trade not written about elsewhere, such as: ways to use the new DHTML properties: innerText, innerHTML, outerText, and outerHTML. While you're trekking around the Microsoft site, you should also check out Michael's article on DHTML and Databinding. Unfortunately, all of the examples in both articles are JavaScript. What gives, Michael? - The SBN Gallery of DHTML Examples
All of the examples that I checked on this site have been re-written in JavaScript (many were originally VBScripts). However, if you VIEW SOURCE
- Microsoft's White Paper on Webcasting
A very thorough discussion of IE4's Web casting technologies, existing and proposed. If you aren't clear on all the why's and wherefore's of this exciting new form of Web-fed information delivery, this paper will bring you up to speed; at least, in terms of IE4. You'll need to check in with the folks at Netscape (or, possibly, Shirley MacLaine) for information on Navigator's channelling technologies.
- Microsoft's Channel Definition Format
Channel Definition Format (CDF) is the format for Microsoft's new Active Channel technology. This article explains CDF and describes how to create a simple channel. The links that follow provide information that builds upon this basic introduction to the implementation of IE4's Web casting capabilities.
- Discussion of Active Channel
- Active Channel Tutorial
- Scriptlets are External, Self-Contained, and VBScriptable!
This new object du jour
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A scriptlet is yet-another reusable object for Web authors. It's basically an external Web page with a new MIME type. It's written in HTML, VBScript and/or JavaScript, and it can be called upon to execute within another page, without leaving the current page. When the Scriptlet code is done executing, control is returned to your current page. This article on the Microsoft site is well-written and thorough if you want to know exactly what scriptlets are, how to use them, and how to grow your own.
This article raises the point that--on the surface--Scriptlets sound like a mere re-hash of the external .js files that interact with a current JavaScript. Not so, says the Webmonkey. The Webmonkey is also concerned (who isn't?) over the subtle way Scriptlets help Microsoft dominate the Web, even while it touts open standards.
Examples that can be used in conjunction with your own pages.
The WC3 describes Extensible Markup Language (XML) as "...an extremely simple dialect of SGML [whose] goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML." Check out Microsoft's proposed IE4 implementation of this pending standard.