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What browsers do when we ../ too much

Part of my thesis work touches on the way web browsers behave and how they process the code that the almighty developers throw at them. Most browsers do not scoff at crappy code, they do try to make sense of it and try to put lipstick on a pig. While testing my code on my own family website, I noticed an interesting behavior: the PHP header file I was including in all pages, had a reference to an image

<img src="../images/imageName.jpg" />
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Java Television Web Development WebSphere

Deploying a web application to Jetty

The Jetty web application server is great. It is just not very well document and when it is documented it is aimed for the very uninitiated. If you’re using Jetty, it is almost like an old boys club – ‘you made it’.

Still, it appears that Jetty and Tomcat are becoming much more similar in their way of doing things, with both using a somewhat proprietary, if you can say that on an open source project, configuration schemes. So how do you deploy a web application to Jetty?

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General Web Development

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop or why Google has nothing to worry about

Yahoo! is the, if not one of, provider of email to the world.
They also have a pretty good calendar and not so bad contact management. A lot of it has to do with people sticking by them because Yahoo! was there early on despite the lack of true innovation in those applications. Now Yahoo! has a chance to do great things and sadly misses the boat.

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