August 1997
Streaming Multimedia
Adding Video to Your Web Site
By Craig Preston
When it comes to video on the Web, bandwidth isn't the only problem.
Craig describes the issues of incompatible file formats and streaming protocols
that every developer must face.
Programming With Net-Specific Lingo
By Robert Schmitt
Originally designed as the scripting language embedded in Macromedia
Director, Lingo's new Net-specific features also let you create some amazing
Shockwave Weblications. Robert shows you how.
Audio Webcasting Demystified
By Skip Pizzi
and Steve Church
As our authors see it, Web audio is characterized today by low-fidelity
sound with nonportable attributes. Skip and Steve review the current options
and take a look at the future of interactive sound on the Web.
C O L U M N S :
Webmaster's Domain
The proposed HTTP 1.1 standard seeks to rectify many of the performance and reliability problems in HTTP 1.0 while including new features to support caching, security, and virtual hosts. Lincoln D. Stein walks you through the new version.
Visual Designer
As Lynda Weinman puts it, there are just two flavors when it comes to typography on the Web—the defaults that your browser displays. After looking at the current state of affairs, our top designer shows how you can put on a new typeface.
Doing Justice to the Web
Placing a hyperlink to another Web site can point your visitors to additional resources while adding value to your own site. Now, it can also get you into legal hot water. Catherine Sansum Kirkman explains.
Virtual Worlds
Andrea L. Ames continues her discussion of texture mapping by showing how to specify a texture as part of a shape's appearance.
Programming with Perl
Always looking for new ways to show off CGI.pm, Randal L. Schwartz presents a simple script that can be used as the basis of a Web-chat program.
Java Alley
Just when you thought you had the AWT down, Java 1.1 adds a completely new event model. Bruce Eckel walks you through.
D E P A R T M E N T S :
Lab Notes
Barista,
which made its debut in Ventura 7, is a publishing engine and Java viewer that
provides true WYSIWYG over the Web. Foster D. Coburn shows how you can
create Barista-enabled content for your Web site.
Special
Report
From advanced avatar creation to 3D modeling, this year's Computer Game Developers Conference offered far more than just the latest in network gaming technologies. Sue Wilcox gives you the virtual walk-through.
Script
Junkie
Emily
A. Vander Veer
shows how to integrate the latest version of JavaScript with Java, ActiveX,
plug-ins, and other technologies, then presents techniques for managing page
layout using style sheets and layers. Reaz Hoque adds an updated script to detect
browsers.
The
Home Page
Editor-in-Chief
Michael Floyd offers "The Ten-Percent Solution."
News
& Notes
Web
3D; audio editing; hacker vandals making waves.
The
Last Page
Michael
Swaine
travels "The Information Sidewalk."
