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Web Programming

Notes Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
12. JavaScript can be used to validate data in HTML forms before sending off the content to a
………………...

13. If the required field is blank, an ………………... alerts a message and the function returns
false.
14. ………………... validation is more secure but often more tricky to code.

15. ………………... is the process of checking that a form has been filled in correctly before it
is processed.

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Caselet IT is India’s Tomorrow

HE Grameen phone scheme in Bangladesh provided one cellular phone each to
10,000 villages for community use. Kerala’s fishermen bargain rates for their catch
Tusing mobiles they carry out to sea. An Internet bus goes about with 20 computers
in Malaysia, “bringing a new world of information and learning opportunities to school
children in rural communities”. And Dr Devi Shetty, a cardio-surgeon in Bangalore, is
connected to 27 districts in the state and also to West Bengal and Assam for consultation.
Is there a correlation between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) usage
and economic growth? Yes, says Vinod Vaish in his foreword to The Great Digital
Transformation by D.K. Ghosh, from Sunrise Publications (sunrisepublications@front.ru).
“The intensive application of ICTs has enabled emergence of a new company characterised
by high productivity, efficient markets, innovations in products and services, technologies,
business models and organisational structures.” The book, subtitled `a saga of sustainable
development’, notes that the South Asian countries are a fertile group to cooperate on ICT
implementation because of their geographic continuity, common historic experience,
close cultural and linguistic environment and so forth.

Peter Drucker’s book Management Challenges for the 21st Century is cited in a chapter
that begins with a new definition of IT by the Prime Minister, Atalji - as ‘India’s tomorrow’.
But Drucker had a different explanation: That for almost four decades people thought IT
meant merely T - that is, data processing using a computer; the significance of I in IT came
much later. The enquiry is “leading rapidly to redefining the tasks to be done with the
help of information and, with it, to redefining the institutions that do these tasks.”
The Malaysian Model, dealt with in a separate chapter, discusses the ‘Multimedia Super
Corridor’ (MSC) - a forum for “new roles of government, new cyber laws and guarantees,
collaborations between government and firms, companies and companies, new
broadcasting, new types of entertainment, education and delivery of healthcare.” Ghosh
delves into something philosophical when laying down what are desirable as features in
an international telecom order: “open, flexible, and competitive; user, rather than operator-
oriented; containing an element of universal service both at the domestic and the
international level; and economically efficient.” But there is a telecommunications gap; it
has three main dimensions. “The international gap, qualitative and technological gap,
and the domestic gap.”
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