THE CGI SCRIPT NEEDS TO RECORD THE IMAGE DATA SENT TO THE SERVER FROM THE DRAWING APPLET, AND I MUST SEND BACK AN APPLET TAG COMPLETE WITH A PARAMETER "DATA" CONTAINING THE MOST RECENT VISITOR'S DRAWING. THIS WILL INVOLVE USING THE cat COMMAND TO REDIRECT >> the,incoming,data TO A FILE, AND THEN USING SOME echo STATEMENTS TO CREATE A NEW HTML PAGE TO BE SENT ON TO THE CLIENT.
TO THIS END I HAVE WRITTEN A BIT OF JAVASCRIPT THAT CREATES A NEW WINDOW. THE MECHANISM FOR CREATING A NEW WINDOW IN JAVASCRIPT IS REALLY QUITE SIMPLE. ONE TRICKY ASPECT IS THE CONTROL OF DIFFERENT INTERFACE COMPONENTS THAT WILL APPEAR IN THE NEWLY CREATED WINDOW. BY DEFAULT *all* THE ELEMENTS WILL BE PRESENT; BUT IF YOU WANT TO TURN ALL OF THEM OFF, IT SUFFICES TO SPECIFY ONE CHARACTERISTIC IN THE NEGATIVE (no).
<html>
<head>
<script language=javascript>
window.open("/act/97/kpts/kpts.php3","applet",status=no,width=250,height=450")
</head>
</script>
</html>
1991 -- President Bush praises the New World Order in a State of Union Message: "What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea -- a new world order...to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind...based on shared principles and the rule of law....The illumination of a thousand points of light....The winds of change are with us now."