IE5 is with us at last, bring authoring goodies which range from fast-rendering tables to the enigmatically-named DHTML Behaviors. Our two-part look at using them starts here! Paul Stephens
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![]() I've warmed up this month with a few minor IE5 features. You can now associate a tag with multiple style classes, there are new table formatting options, and you can now call IE's print dialog directly from a script. See the Warm-Ups Guide for details. On to heavier things, the first of IE5's major new authoring features is Dynamic Properties. Object properties have been dynamically updateable since IE4, but these are even more dynamic than that. You can now give a property an initial value based on a calculated expression, and have IE5 automatically update it if the values of any of the items referenced in the expression change. You can even switch a property between dynamic and static states. See the Dynamic Properties Guide for details.
As you might expect, Netscape's website doesn't have much coverage of IE5 authoring, but Microsoft's has huge volumes of the stuff. To get started, try my selection of IE5 authoring-related pages, including quick 'what's new' pages and the massive Site Builder Workshop sections. Finally, don't forget that my own website has a new URL, at www.paulspages.co.uk. The actual site is still at web.ukonline.uk, but I've registered my own domain name, and arranged for calls to it to be redirected to the real server. How did I do that? Find out soon in Web Workshop! Until next month, happy authoring! |