In 2000, Microsoft announced what is probably its largest software development programme. It was known as .Net and involved configuring many of its products such as Excel, Word, MS Access together with its supported programming languages such as Visual Basic and C++ so that they are seamlessly integrated with the Internet and with each other.
We’ve become quite casual about the mainstreaming of the Web—we can’t get through a nightly TV news show or morning classical radio program without being told there’s more on a story or a playlist available on the station’s Web site. Pointers in printed marketing, collateral, newsletters, magazines, journals, and books—including this one!—to visit Web sites […]
Internet Surveys
While there is a mass of online surveys on the World Wide Web,’ there is still little published research on the factors that influence participants’ responses in Internet-administered surveys. As noted above, most empirical investigations of Internet survey methodology to date have appeared in market research journals (such as The International Journal of Market […]
Properly speaking, ‘Internet‘ is the name of a communication protocol (IP = Internet Protocol), which unsurprisingly is central to the communication between your computer and the rest of the world. However, the name has also come to be applied to the global network of computers connected using this protocol; this is perhaps the most common […]
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To make your HTML documents available over the Web, they must be placed on a web server. This is a computer, generally with a permanent network connection, which is running web server software. The software responds to HTTP requests for documents, which it then sends to the machine that made the request, or client. Common […]
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Java Yet more sophisticated interactive designs are possible using Java (developed by Sun Microsystems Inc.), which is now widely available. There are various Java-enabled browsers, such as Netscape Navigator 2.0 and above, Sun’s own HotJava, Opera, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Java is an object-oriented programming language that permits animated graphics as well as all the rest […]
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser supports VBScript, a variant of Visual Basic, as an alternative to JavaScript, which it also supports under the name of JScript. On Internet Explorer, VBScript and JScript are just syntactic alternatives, with the same functionality, but JScript and JavaScript differ in some areas of functionality, despite being broadly compatible.
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Whether you’re the style guardian of your own work or the resident style keeper (stylekeeper?) in a big shop, your aim is to make consistent calls using rationales that cover most cases. Guidelines that you formalize for yourself are proprietary—that is, they belong and apply solely to you. They can take the form of a […]
While such approaches may be perfectly feasible (and we do not wish to discourage creative use of technology), it is always worth considering whether the target population has access to the software required. People can only participate in a study if they have the appropriate software installed and configured, so an effective approach is to […]
There are two vital dimensions required to satisfy the e-customer. The service must have an electronic structure that is usable and the process that supports it must have standards of delivery that make it enjoyable.
The e-customer will not find your service useful if it is not usable. He interacts with your service through a screen […]
The worldwide scope of an electronic commerce offer must rely on a set of physical and logical solutions to meet users’ expectations. Not all customers are computer wizards, and the architecture must account for ergonomic factors, in addition to the security of the exchanges and the different methods for accessing the telecommunications network. This section […]
The arguments in favor of the Internet sound, at a decade interval, like an echo of those that were previously formulated in praise of the Minitel. This passion for information technology is displayed in a context where ambitious growth rates are not physically sustainable, due to market saturation in rich countries, the progressive depletion of […]
JEPI (Joint Electronic Payment Initiative) is a joint initiative of the W3C and the CommerceNet consortium. The purpose is to allow a server to negotiate, with a client, the payment protocol advantageous to both parties. Membership of the JEPI project includes several suppliers of solutions for secure payments (Cybercash, GCTech), software (Microsof, IBM, OpenMarket), services […]
The proliferation of incompatible payment systems creates difficulties for all concerned — users, service suppliers, financial institutions, and regulatory bodies. History has shown repeatedly that the expansion of commerce requires a stable and uniform environment. Yet, in a single aspect of electronic commerce such as electronic purses, there are more than 20 commercialized schemes in […]
The automation and dematerialization of monetary exchanges are not objectives per se, but are solely means to improve the productivity of financial institutions. In this regard, an overabundance of standards, and sometimes their competition, may constitute a barrier to the establishment of electronic commerce. Even if some manufacturers think they can profit from this situation, […]
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In this section we will build a very basic front end that makes a connection to our database, validates a user’s login, and retrieves (searches for) data. Although this is just a start, it will provide the building blocks you need to develop it further for your own needs.
This unlike the others, is more like […]
