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The Web: From 1.0 to 2.0 and back again

This trimester will be focused on the Internet / Web. We will cover fundamentals concepts of the web (Hypertext, HTML, HTTP, CSS), while making connections to scripting, using Python when possible, and other scripting languages (such as JavaScript) when appropriate.

Possible topics:

• The Web as Collage

• (Ab-)Usability

• Shiretoko! <video> and <audio> tags, finally

• Accessibility / Multiplicity: Screen Readers & Mobile phones -- programming for minimal / alternative browsing

• To scroll or not to scroll

• Frames

• Headline scrambler revisited

• Feed Collages

• Offline: The future of webapps?

• Drag and drop day

• Zooming Out: Fisheye views / Elastic interfaces

• The blurring line between application and web

Techical Plans

Your technical plan for the coming trimester should include the topics you would most like to cover (web-related or not), for instance consider the following list of possibilities:

• javascript
• jquery
• prototype
• Applets (java/processing, flash)
• CGI
• Database/MySQL
• Vector Graphics (SVG)
• Typography online
• Regular Expressions
• HTTP Basics: MIME types, Character sets, Headers, Statelessness

Resources

• http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html