This iteration of the demo site was written for Internet Explorer(IE) when it started to embrace the full DHTML modal. That was way back in 2002 and earlier. Back then IE was the browser market with up to 95% market share... and as with every company that becomes dominant they relaxed. Now in 2010, with around 60% market share, IE is playing catch up to virtualy all other browsers quality. Including Chrome(my current fav), Firefox, Safari, Opera and others.
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Demo Site
Sorry, this only works for IE and Opera(mostly). Other browsers fail during page loading.
LOCAL SQL Databases
That's right LOCAL(on the customers device) databases using SQL queries and JavaScript. We are not talking some simple key/value pair concept but a REAL database with all it's benefits. A must have for offline work or intermittent connections. See create, open, insert, modify, delete and other functions in this demo.
The ?NOCSS Demo
While viewing the main site(not demo site) you can view the page without CSS by adding ?NOCSS to the end of the address. For example: For my home page this would be http://wmoore.ca/?NOCSS . Notice that ?NOCSS must be uppercase to work. What you get is a page that is perfect for software that reads web pages like ones for the visually impaired. With CSS turned off the only graphic is the logo and all nice formating is gone. The page will look like a very old web page(like 1992). Everything still works but the site looks very different. In this way with the change of one CSS file the whole site can dramatically change. This demo shows you the difference.
"Site Wide" Demos
Read the details about several of the concepts that were implemented in the demo site way back then on a site wide basis(almost every page used them)... Before .NET existed. Very low storage/network/bandwidth usage, ultra-fast, even true client/server design for database demo's that respond almost as fast on dial-up connections as high-speed.
How To Demos
These demos show how to examples of common tasks and several "tricks". Each provides examples, explanation and full source you can cut & copy to your site. The overview page is much better if you upgrade. Most of these require JavaScript and inform you of any browser limitations.
CGI Source
Get the source code of several custom CGI scripts I have written. The redirect script is very valuable once you think about it for a while.