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Updated: November 18, 1997
Contents
Summer '97: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Spring '97: eXplore Easter
Winter '96: eXplore Xmas
The members of our public IE-HTML mailing list have held a series of contests to demonstrate their ability to create exciting and effective Web sites using features of Internet Explorer. Members create special sites for each contest, and the list membership votes for their favorite sites. Members enter these contests primarily for the fun of demonstrating what they have learned, in the spirit exhibited in the normal daily mailing list discussions. However, winners do receive prizes contributed by list members and anonymous donors. These contests are run by the list members, and are not sponsored by Microsoft. Occasionally MSDN Online will invite contest winners to submit articles describing particularly innovative aspects of their sites.
The Summer '97 theme used Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as an organizing theme, and offered two entry categories. One was for sites that could be viewed with any platform version of Internet Explorer 3.x. It did not allow scripting, and emphasized effective design using style sheets and other HTML features. The second category was for sites that used all of the features of either Internet Explorer 3.x or Internet Explorer 4.0, and required Windows® 95 or Windows NT™.
Summer '97 Category 1 winners -- Internet Explorer 3.x on all platforms:
| Place | Name/E-mail | Site |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary L. Hayes (a.k.a. Caleha)
(caleha@soundcom.net) |
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/3545/summer1.htm  |
Summer '97 Category 2 winners -- Internet Explorer 3.x and 4.0 on Windows 95/NT:
| Place | Name/E-mail | Site |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | D. Wayne Ruehling
(cwstudio@olypen.com) |
http://www.clallam.com/foursight/
|
| 2 (tie) | Aaron Bertrand
(aaron@desktop.on.ca) |
http://www.desktop.on.ca/summer/ |
| 2 (tie) | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
(awk-h@dolwar.demon.co.uk) |
http://www.dolwar.demon.co.uk/summer97/ |
| 2 (tie) | Sigurd Indra Knippenberg
(sigurd@knippenberg.com) |
http://www.knippenberg.com/sigurd/summer |
Related Articles
D. Wayne Ruehling's article, Active Twist on the Tabular Data Control, focuses on his innovative use of the Tabular Data Control that ships with Internet Explorer 4.0.
See Aaron Bertrand's article, Interactive Word Scramble with ASP and Internet Explorer 4.0, for
a in-depth look at how he implemented a word scramble game that tests users' knowledge of tennis.
The second contest took place during the spring of 1997. Although titled eXplore Easter, the contest welcomed all entries that expressed non-religious themes such as spring.
eXplore Easter '97 winners
| Place | Name/E-mail | Site |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Nicholson
(john.nicholson@ukonline.co.uk) |
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/john.nicholson/easter/choice.htm |
| 2 | Samuel Fortin
(samuel.fortin@softodyssey.com) |
http://www.softodyssey.com/easter/ |
| 3 (tie) | Caroline Jobin
(cwstudio@olypen.com) |
http://tnt.vianet.on.ca/pages/loexan/explore/easter.htm |
| 3 (tie) | Elliott Strange
(elliots@xtra.co.nz) |
site no longer active |
| 3 (tie) | Sigurd Indra Knippenburg
(sigurd@knippenberg.com) |
http://www.knippenberg.com/sigurd/easter |
The first contest occurred at the end of 1996 and was based on a Christmas or New Year's theme. Fifty-seven members submitted entries to the judges.
eXplore Xmas '96 winners
| Place | Name/E-mail | Site |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Young
(gcyoung@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu) |
http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~gcyoung/activeXmas/ |
| 2 (tie) | John Nicholson
(john.nicholson@ukonline.co.uk) |
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/john.nicholson/images/exprize.gif
|
| 2 (tie) | D. Wayne Ruehling
(cwstudio@olypen.com) |
ActiveX version--http://www.clallam.com/newseason/index.htm
Style sheet--http://www.clallam.com/newseason/index3.htm
HTML--http://www.clallam.com/newseason/index4.htm |
Related articles
This contest generated several articles. George Young wrote a piece entitled The ActiveXmas Setup Wizard that focused on his code for configuring and loading ActiveX controls, while John Nicholson (Behind the Scenes of Our Second Prize-Winning eXplore Xmas Entry) and Wayne Ruehling (eXplore Xmas '96: A Christmas Tale of Three Pages) described the architecture of and inspirations for their entries.
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