EWT Class1 Standards and Proposals

Web Standards

• XHTML([1.1])([2]),
• HTML([4.01])([5)

Proposed topics

AJAX

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_JavaScript_Framework
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script.aculo.us
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dojo_Toolkit
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET_AJAX

APIs

• http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets
• http://code.google.com/apis/maps
• JSON http://www.json.org/

Plugins

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_gears
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScreamingMonkey
• Flash/Flex

Links

• http://www.pageflakes.com

http://developer.mozilla.org/presentations/eich-ajax-experience-2007/photos.svg

http://developer.mozilla.org/presentations/eich-ajax-experience-2007/

http://silverlight.net/samples/1.1/chess/run/default.html

Home work

Create a folder inside of you pub folder called 'EWT'. Create an index file in the folder. You'll be responsible for linking all of you projects and assignments from the page.

Choose one of the above topics and create a web page introduction to that technology. The introduction should answer the following ?'s

• What is the new technology?
• What does the new technology fix/replace?
• What should I use the new technology?
• Do you think that this technology has staying power?