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Each week, our TAs will present some extra neat material that we didn't have time to cover in lecture. The sessions are held in SIG 134, the same room as the lectures, on Fridays at 2:20, right after the Friday lecture.
Today Shiny talked about using the Facebook javascript API.
Roy then talked about some additional javascript API's.
Roy talked about some specific issues that make IE frustrating for developers and how to develop in a way that looks good in IE as well.
Today Shiny showed how to set up MySQL on UW's "virgil" server and how to use SQL and PHP to create a 2ch-style message board.
Today Shiny talked about using PHP to make web proxies, crawlers and search engines.
Today Roy talked about HTML5 forms and client-side validation.
For more information, try this cite that gives lots of cool demos and the w3c page about input tag types.
Sean introduced the topic of web-desin and what goes into making a good and all too often bad webpage. He talked about the science of the eye, and many resources to make your site more intriguing to end users.
Today we talked about the new HTML5 audio
and video
tags, and how to embed your own fonts in a web page using CSS3;
We also talked about how to use CSS3 to produce 3-D transformations and animation effects.