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Chapter 14: Kitchen of the Future
(Emerging Server Technology)
Ingredients:
- Mac OS X Server
- Webcasting
- Style Sheets, Dynamic HTML, and XML
- Collaborative Environments and CORBA
This brings us to the end of our meal. All good things must come to an end. However, with dining, the end of one meal only means that it is time to plan for the next. Its time to re-examine your menu, the wishes of your customers, and the specials at the supermarket.
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Cascading Style Sheets. This Web site uses a simlpe Cascading Style Sheet (cookbook.css) to simplify formatting and updating. It's very basic to ensure that it works with both Netscape and Microsoft browsers. |
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Here's the example style sheet from the Section 14.3, and the sample page using it. |
Table 14-1 Mac OS X Server sites
| Product |
Description |
| Mac OS X Server by Apple |
The home page for Mac OS X Server. |
| Mac OS X Server by Apple |
Apple's Mac OS X Server site for developers. |
| Stepwise by Scott Anguish |
An OpenStep/Rhapsody developer site, including Web and ftp sites with OpenStep and Rhapsody software and information. |
| The Mac OS Xclave by Mark J. Hershenson |
A third-party source of Mac OS X information. |
Table 14-2 Webcasting Sites
| Product |
Description |
| IPMI by Stardust.com |
The official page for the IP Multicast Initiative. |
| MBONE by Yahoo! |
Resources for MBONE multicast. |
| RealProducer by Real Networks |
RealNetworks software for streaming audio and video over the Internet. |
Table 14-3 Cascading Style Sheets
Table 14-4 Dynamic HTML Information
| Product |
Description |
| DHTML, HTML, and CSS by Microsoft |
Microsoft Developer Network guide to DHTML and related technologies. |
| Dynamic HTML Index by All-Links |
Large compilation of DHTML links.
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| Dynamic HTML Manual by Netscape |
This book describes how to use Dynamic HTML to incorporate style sheets, positioned content, and downloadable fonts in your web pages. |
| Dynamic HTML Zone by Macromedia |
Resources, tutorials, and articles on DHTML. |
Table 14-6 XML Information
| Product |
Description |
| Emilé by Media Design in-Progress |
The first XML editor for Macintosh, used to author documents using XML and Extensible HTML. |
| Extensible Markup Language (XML) by W3 Consortium |
The official XML home page. |
| The XML Files by Dale Dougherty |
A WebReview article on XML. |
| The XML Industry Portal by XML.org |
A self-supporting community resource for XML information. |
| What's the Point of XML by Ed Tittel |
An article from the February 1998 issue of SunWorld. |
| XML FAQ by W3C XML Special Interest Group |
Frequently Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language |
| XML, Java, and the future of the Web by Jon Bosak |
An article from Sun Microsystems. |
| XPublish by Media Design in-Progress |
A professional website publishing system for Macintosh. It automatically generates standard HTML pages from extensible markup. |
Table 14-7 Web Collaboration
| Product |
Description |
| Collaboration by W3 Consortium |
The W3C pages on Web-based Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability |
| Collaboration software by NCSA |
The Habanero, ISAAC, and POS software development work at NCSA. |
| Collaboration Technology for health care by CERC |
Collaboration Technology for Health Care-related Projects at the Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University |
| Collaborative Computing Research by LBNL |
The Distributed Virtual Microscopy and
Microcharacterization project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. |
| Hotline by Hotline Communications Ltd. |
The Hotline Connect suite, comprised of the Client and Server, enables individuals to create, build and maintain their own Internet communities instantly. It gives the user real-time and simultaneous messaging, chat and conferencing; resumable file transfer and file viewing; news board reading and posting, and community-list searching and filtering. |
| Look@Me by Netopia |
Look@Me applet allows person-to-person collaboration from within your Internet browser or as a standalone applet. |
| MICE by SDSC |
The Molecular Interactive Collaborative Environment (MICE) project at SDSC. |
| Tango Interactive by WebWisdom.com/NPAC |
The Java-based Tango collaboratory from WebWisdom.com and the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University. |
| Telemicroscopy by NCMIR |
The Collaboratory for Microscopic Digital Anatomy (CMDA) at UC San Diego. |
| Web Collaboration Projects by Daniel LaLiberte |
The HyperNews archive on Web Collaboration projects, including a list of sites and a message board. |
Table 14-8 CORBA References
| Product |
Description |
| CORBA for Beginners by Object Management Group |
A good starting point for learning about the Common Object Resource Broker Architecture (CORBA). |
| CorbaWeb by Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille |
A generic gateway between CORBA and World Wide Web |
| Object Management Group by OMG |
The Object Management Group, an industry organization to define and support CORBA. |
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