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New Web citizens–html 5, CSS 3 & IE 9

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:51:02 +0000

I recently attended a seminar hosted by Microsoft at Pune, India unveiling the potential of new standards (html 5, css3) and innovations (IE9) that are going to make the entire web experience different (for better). The discussion, no doubt, offered good amount of food for thought. What I intend to discuss here is not comprehensive …

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Http Hacked

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:01:24 +0000

We learnt that http was originally designed to publish a set of static hyperlinked document not much different in purpose from the paper publications. However, fate had something else in mind. It was entrusted a much bigger responsibility than it was designed for. This episode details on how http was hacked to make it a programming platform. This understanding is essential for any one willing to programme web in any web technology.

story of www – between http and html

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:09:20 +0000

A brief discussion on the importance and limitation of http protocol and html specification that governs the world wide web. The idea is to record the rise of www from a humble protocol to encompass the entire internet and to critically examin its ability to be the vehicle of next generation programming.