Good morning CNN. Had a good nap these last few years?
CNN on AJAX:
The threat comes in large part from Ajax, a set of Web development tools that speeds up Web applications by summoning snippets of data as needed instead of pulling entire Web pages over and over.
Also contributing are faster Internet connections, more powerful computers and better browsers able to handle Ajax, which is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
“There’s a lot of power sitting on that Web browser … that people are just tapping into,” said White of eBusiness Applications. Web developers “are beginning to push its limits in terms of creative uses and new applications.”
Martin Scorsese’s mob classic “Goodfellas” was voted the best piece of cinema ever made by a panel of “experts”. Crash made the list as 21st. On the “definitive guide to the finest films ever made” list compiled by Total Film magazine.
A Total Film spokesman said: “Choosing the final 100 provoked endless rows and debates but we think we’ve put together the definitive list.”
The full list is published in a special edition of Total Film available from October 27.
In other list related news, Eminem’s “8 Mile” made it to number 14 on Blender magazine’s Top “100 Greatest Rock And Roll Movies Of All Time”. Metallica’s 2004 documentary, Some Kind Of Monster, made it to third.
Good examples:
- A visual representation of US soldiers killed in the war
- A visual representation of US soldiers wounded in the war
- A visual representation of Iraqis killed in the war
You’ll notice how small the actual code is that makes up those pages. The visualization is done by smartly using PHP and some math to set the correct height and width values for two DIVs that have a repeated background image.
This way there is no need for thousands of IMG tags to be created that bloat your html output and user graphics memory and thus delaying loading times.
Here’s a bad example of the same visualization:
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