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In this conclusion to a six-part series on the decorator pattern we re going to put what we ve learned to work on a more realistic example than the ones we ve covered up until now a web site for a hybrid car dealership. This article is excerpted from chapter four of em ActionScript 3. Design Patterns Object Oriented Programming Techniques em written by William B. Sanders and Chandima Cumaranatunge O Reilly 2 7 ISBN 596528469 . Copyright 2 7 O Reilly Media Inc. All rights...

In the last few years divs have became very popular with many web designers particularly when it comes to building the layout of the many different pages that comprise a web site. And certainly this table-less approach has proven to be quite successful over time. It permits developers to create both liquid and fixed designs with relative ease by using a standard methodology. Unfortunately one aspect of the approach can cause web pages to display in very different ways on different...

These days many web-based applications are trying to look more like desktop applications. To a limited extent it works -- until you come to dialog boxes. A desktop application s dialog box works one way and the dialog boxes you can get from an opened web page work another way they do not provide the same functions. Fortunately there s a way to change this. This first part of a five-part article series gets you on your way....