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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.