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April
Web UI On The Cusp Of Change
Jon UdellFuture Web interfaces won't necessarily be HTML based -- and there are lots of contenders and toolkits, according to Jon and Byte.com newsgroup contributors. There's Mozilla's XUL, MSIE's DHTML, IBM's SASH weblications, DirectDOM, and others -- but will
Microsoft XML: The Cup Is Half Full
Jon UdellWord 2000's "almost-but-not-quite-XML" is a step in the right direction -- but not surprisingly, has some odd misses.
Doing Groupware Via Hybrid Web/E-Mail Apps
Jon UdellGroupware needs to combine e-mail communication with Web programmability. Jon looks at TimeDance and Zaplets as examples of efforts he likes, and discusses groupware/Web solutions vs. plain old brute-force e-mail (which, unfortunately, doesn't always work
Newsgroups And The Wiki Way
Jon UdellIn an era of crushing infoglut, every screen should summarize and inform. Mailing lists fail this test spectacularly. Newsgroups can do better. So, in a very different way, can Wiki webs.
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