The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard or protocol for external "gateway" programs to interact with information servers such as those running the web's HTTP protocol. The CGI standard can be used in other information systems as well, but to...

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard protocol for interfacing external application software with an information server, commonly a web server. The task of such an information server is to respond to requests (in the case of web servers,...

This month I am inaugurating a new feature in this column called, "How Do They Do That?" I am going to tackle some of the higher-end, tools used by Web developers. My intention in these columns, which will appear on an irregular basis,...

Much has been said about the multimedia capabilities of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web), and the new possibilities that this offers to deliver media elements such as video, sound, animations, diagrams, graphs, and so forth, to a student audience. Attractive as...