Web issues

Handouts

eScience : http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/comp1710/index.en.html

shortcut : escience/comp1710 or escience/nm

All lecture notes will be available on the course web site.

The final handouts should be available, at the very latest, the Friday following the lecture.

slightly irrelevant remarks : what is happening with that shortcut ?
1) http://   2) escience  3) .anu.edu.au  4) :80 5) cg 6) /index.html 7) : Redirection from an HTML file

and as a redirection through the webct web site

Some tips on how to use the web site

Table of contents, print link, link link, navigation

CSS : Cascading Style Sheets

CSS are the best way to change the look of a web page without touching its content. It helps to deal with Accessibility issues. The idea is that text content is not corrupted by visual formatting.

Be sure that your web browser accept CCS. Netscape (> 4) and IE (>= 5) should be OK. Go to the W3C web site to check the list.

I will be using CSS in order to use the same document for slides, handouts and even my lecture notes. The differences will be done only by the application of different Style Sheets on the same web pages.

Additional Formats

Both of the following formats are based on XML and will perhaps be used in the handouts.

They are both new on the web in the sense that they are not yet set by default in main browser installations. Nevertheless, good Plug-Ins already exist to visualise those formats into web pages. To learn more about web standards and XML stuff, check the W3C web site : http://www.w3C.org/ .

Even if we don't eventually use these additional format s in the present lecture notes, it is interesting to have a look at them

From PNG to SVG : Scalable Vector Graphics

SVG is a challenger to Flash and Shockwave, the Macromedia format. Although SVG will
add many capabilities that are not directly available in Flash, by far the biggest difference between Flash and SVG is that the former is proprietary and the latter is public.

Adobe : http://www.adobe.com/svg/

has released a good plug-in for SVG.

MathML : Mathematics on the web

MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text.

IBM techexplorer : http://www-4.ibm.com/software/network/techexplorer/

IBM is providing a plug-in for MathML. Not will only this plug-in allow you to visualise MathML, but techexplorer enables the display of TeX, LaTeX and MathML documents and the publishing of interactive scientific material on the Web. Version 3.1 includes full support for MathML 2.0