Well, ya' gotta' do what you love to do. So I've just finished a revision of my five day course "You and z/OS and the World Wide Web". The update includes testing labs with more, and later version, browsers (Firefox 3.0.11, Opera 9.63, Safari 4.0, Chrome 2.0, Internet Explorer 8.0 and Amaya 11.2) as well as a brief look at what's developing along the HTML 5 and XHTML 5 lines. [Lo and behold, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal has an article that includes pointing out how Google and Microsoft are both pushing for HTML 5 to become a standard quicker than was planned!]
Although this course has been developed and tested with z/OS in mind, it is a standards based course and the bulk of the content applies to any Web environment. The content examines: HTML - all the most useful elements including * links, anchors, and targets * lists * event handlers * client side maps * embedded objects (PDFs, movies, audio, Java classes...) * Forms and form controls * Cookies * Tables * Framesets XHTML - with differences from HTML CSS - inline style, internal style sheets, and external style sheets ECMAScript - better known as JavaScript DOM - the Document Object Model None of the above are dependent on z/OS levels, and all of the above apply to any web page coding you might want to do. So create and serve web content on the Internet or your Intranet from your z/OS system (it _is_ a server, is it not? IBM keeps telling us it is, and I can vouch for that). Related courses: Introduction to z/OS UNIX - 3 days Shell Scripting in z/OS UNIX - 3 days Developing Applications for z/OS UNIX - 3 days Introduction to CGIs on z/OS - 1 day Writing z/OS CGIs in COBOL - 2 days Writing z/OS CGIs in Assembler - 2 days Next I'm looking at AJAX and the new Widgets standards. Again, developed on and for z/OS but with a wider applicability. Step right up, don't be shy! Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com z/OS Application development made easier * Our classes include + How things work + Programming examples with realistic applications + Starter / skeleton code + Complete working programs + Useful utilities and subroutines + Tips and techniques ==> Ask about being added to our opt-in list: <== ==> * Early announcement of new courses <== ==> * Early announcement of new techincal papers <== ==> * Early announcement of new promotions <== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html