Determining the behaviour of an application at run-time using parameters is a well-established practice. But whilst it's possible with command-line and server-side applications, the scope for passing information to client-side internet applications is limited. With the growth in internet-facing desktop applications, widgets and gadgets, there is a need to pass parameters directly to the application, rather than via a server, and this post looks at how that might be achieved.
Thought piece
Passing run-time parameters to internet applications
Submitted by administrator on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 11:03.Ajax and progressive browser enhancement
Submitted by administrator on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 09:35.There is still plenty of scope for the browser to evolve, but the truth is that progressive browser enhancement makes browser evolution far less significant than it has been until now. That's probably not a bad thing, given the chaos that is currently surrounding the development of HTML at the W3C.
