Flash plus more with Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft recently unveiled Silverlight which they claim would Power the Next Generation of Media Experiences on the Web. It is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in currently available on Windows and Mac platforms and will work on major browsers on these platforms. The plugin installer for Windows is sized 1.1 MB.
International Domain Names
This post uses hindi unicode characters which would not be visible unless you have a font containing Hindi unicode glyphs. If not, you can download it from BBC Hindi site.
With the growth of Internet, user expectations also grew. First it featured plain text on familier blue/black background, later included images, then animations, sounds, movies... When it comes to text language we first had just English, then had other languages which could be viewed only after downloading relevent fonts, then came dynamic fonts and lastly the Unicode that standardized the language characters.
Logo – Turtle Graphics!?
I learnt Logo (Turtle Graphics) when I was in class 8th (that was 1987, today children are taught Logo in their primary classes). For those who are not aware of, Logo is an Interpreted language, the turtle graphics of which is considered most apt language for young students to learn. Students can learn to program movement of on-screen turtle drawing basic shapes and fractal pattens.
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Databases allow datatypes that can store unicode data, then why was it that while MS-Access successfully stored Unicode data whereas MS-SQL server failed when I first tried. See how to handle Unicode data in Storing Unicode Data in Databases.