I’ve recently been spending a lot of time pondering and pontificating on web architecture, and it occurs to me that Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS), now in it’s sixth version, is still pathetically lacking in one key feature that I think it critical for properly architecting websites. And this key feature has been part of/available …
Is Using JavaScript to Emulate Clicking an HREF a Bad Technique?
Arshad Tanveer just commented on my post Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! Arshad felt I was being “a tad too harsh on links triggering JavaScript.” Well he was right; I was being harsh. But I was being harsh on purpose! My reason for being harsh on using JavaScript instead of basic HTML hypertext was to …
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Well Designed URLs are Beautiful!
With all the talk of AJAX these days and with my concerns about poorly implemented AJAX-based sites and what they may mean for the web, I’m once again reminded of an opinion I’ve had for a long time: Well designed URL is one of the most valuable aspects of the web. Put more succinctly: Well …
Windows Server Core! Finally: A stripped-down version of Windows that loses the GUI!
InformationWeek reports "Microsoft Tests Two Flavors Of Windows Server" Quoting from the article: Beta tests of the next version of Windows Server include a stripped-down version, called Windows Longhorn Server Core, that loses the Windows GUI and includes only the most common server functions. All I can say is "Finally!!!"