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March
The Future Of The Programmable Browser
Jon UdellWill DHTML converge on a standard? Where does XUL fit in? Jon says it's time for the pendulum to swing back toward richer user-interface machinery -- but he hopes the simplicity characterized the HTML revolution will carry forward into this next phase.
Personal Firewalls And Local Proxies
Jon UdellJon and the newsgroups folks discuss BlackICE Defender, ZoneAlarm, and other tools to keep things safe.
E-Payment Alternatives
Jon UdellRecent discussion of SET, and a simple but clever alternative scheme to address the challenge of secure e-payments in Jon's column this week.
Object Data And The Procrustean Bed
Jon UdellObject data has to be tortured to fit into SQL tables. The Web is overdue for a new storage paradigm. For Object-Oriented DBMSes, will Zope cope? What about Apple's Enterprise Objects Framework?
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