Creating Web Documents

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Creating Web Documents

• news quiz
• Trends (jargon)
• Homework postings project 3
• Use Final quiz preparation guide in Course
  Documents on Blackboard. Final quiz 2 weeks.

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news quiz

• Still analyzing results
• Weak mostly on map drawing, many of questions
• Excellent on finding information
• some map drawing still weak
• Does not appear to be correlation between voting
  (mostly non-voting), self-assessment on how much
  a follower of news, major/career with knowledge

3
Geography

• was part of 'the story'
• First Gulf War Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
• Now
• Turkey opening of Northern front
• Syria possible destination for refugees
• Syria and Jordan fighters to Iraq
• Iran place for Iraqi refugees from Sadaam.
  Shiite connection
• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers early civilization

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Challenge

• Devise web / animation / graphics design /
  multimedia way to present maps (geography) so
  people learn (absorb and retain the information)
• informal presentation (for example, news)
• formal instruction (school, self-help)

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Emerging technologies

• broadband?
• XML/XSL/XSLT and XHTML
• peer-to-peer computing
• semantic web?
• ubiquitous computing, PDAs, wearable computers,
  etc.
• wireless
• HCI

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Broadband

• term has come to mean high bandwidth connections
  to the Internet
• cable modem, DSL
• Internet II (an NSF sponsored higher
  performance set of connections)
• The prediction was that this would change the
  nature of the web. Did it happen????

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eXtended Markup Language

• Structure data independent of display
• then specify the display using eXtended
  Stylesheet Language, using an eXtended Stylesheet
  Language Transformation program
• Large and small organizations agree on particular
  Document Type Definitions
• DocBook, mathML, Wireless ML

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XML alphabet soup

• used with databases (with SQL)
• server side programming (asp, php)
• client side (HTML /or Flash)
• special devices, for example, personal digital
  assistants (generic name for things such as Palm
  Pilots)

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XHTML

• tidied up XHTML, to fit requirements for XML
• proper nesting
• NOT blah blah
• quoted attribute values
• NOT but src"bird.gif" width"100"
• tag names all lower case
• modify 'singleton' tags
• NOT
  but
  
• use and
• reference to DOCTYPE and character encoding

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XHTML

• "Good Housekeeping" type sign of approval
• See my sites
• newmedia.purchase.edu/Jeanine
• member.verizon.net/vze2s839
• Note no mechanism to check that any updates did
  not make site invalid

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peer to peer computing

• Generic term for what Napster KaZaa
  did/was/is????
• not limited to getting mpg3 music files
• computers acting together
• for sharing information and/or
• performing computation

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Semantic Web

• project of Tim Berners-Lee
• make Web more useful
• semantics meaning
• go beyond searching
• Recall Vannevar Bush article

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Ubiquitous computing

• wearable computers
• computers 'in the walls'
• computers in devices
• smart house
• smart devices
• Convergence
• TV, computer, game station, stereo/CD player

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wireless

• Emerging as the way to 'wire' buildings and,
  perhaps, campuses
• New York Wireless project to set up areas with
  access.
• Bryant Park in Manhattan
• Potential security problems

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Human Computer Interface

• Speech recognition at last?
• handwriting recognition
• significant limited application
• gesture recognition
• Accessibility issues
• new standards for Web sites, Flash projects.

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Advice

• You need to learn how to learn because technology
  keeps changing (evolving)
• Important to reflect on content, purpose,
  function, audience
• Web sites need to be about something, for some
  purpose, for some audience

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Homework

• postings
• Project 3
• finish
• upload (can always modify and upload new files)
• send address so site is linked from class page
• review notes, book, posted examples. See Final
  quiz preparation guide to be posted from charts
  page(s).