Damn Gossip,
I think that is the most elegant Spoilers markup I’ve ever seen. Are you going to add it to the clickable markup? (The links that are between the Title text input and the Main Entry text area.)
[Spoilers] Most places just set the font color to match the background color. Then you have to highilight the area to read the spoilers text. I like this solution much better. [/Spoilers]
Yesterday during our lunch-break, a few of my coworkers and I hit the local Toys R Us. (To do some X-Mas shopping – yeah, that’s it…) Anyway, I was poking around over in the videogame area when I came across an interesting kiosk. It had a GBA with a new peripheral installed: the Nintendo e-Reader.
Basically, you buy this reader, and you can use it to scan cards that have “Dot Code” printed along the side. Depending on the complexity of the Dot Code needed, an entire game, (or some text, or a picture or something,) can be encoded on anywhere from 1-5 cards. The technology reminds me of the punch-cards that used to be used to program computers.
I just thought it was interesting. (Even if there is a Pokemon tie-in…)
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Greetings,W3C switched today its home page to a full CSS layout instead of the
previous table-based one. See:
http://www.w3.org/The techniques used in this layout has been documented at:
http://www.w3.org/2002/11/homepage
It is basically realized through the float property.As you may know, using CSS for horizontal layout has some important
benefits:
– respect of the HTML semantics (tables are really for tabular data)
– better accessibility
– better device scalabilityThe downside is that some non-CSS2 aware browsers do not render it as
intended; the page keeps completely readable though.The W3C Communication Team is interested in hearing comments on this
change on the publicly archived mailing-list site-comments@w3.org
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Kinda cool
I’m probably way more proud of this than I should be, but look what I just made!
True, it’s no g-blog.net – but it is technically my first database driven website that hasn’t relied on pre-written packages.
I mentioned a project I was going to use to get started writing database-driven sites a LONG time back. This isn’t it, but I’m now one step closer to finishing that.
goes back to futzing with his lame joke database…
(Hey Gossip, how about a “Coding/PHP” category? It could replace “Computers/Programming” which is redundant with “Coding”. Yeah, I know I’m the one that asked for “Computers/Programming” originally – but I didn’t see “Coding” for some dumb reason.)
Edited on Nov 22nd 2002, 17:53 by Hooloovoo
I spent most of yesterday working on a nifty little php script for work…
When I was testing it, I was running into all sorts of odd behavior and I got tired of trying to de-bug it. I put it up on my website so I could work on it over the weekend.
I just spent the last hour or so breaking the script from a single php file into 6. I thought my scheme for having the different steps the script goes through as functions controled by a variable called $stage was somehow flawed, since in some cases I was making the script pass arguments back to itself via the URL. Or something – I wasn’t exactly sure what was wrong. It was buggy and needed to be fixed.
THEN I see that I’m using “=” instead of “==” to check what “stage” I’m on in the master control structure that determines which function to do.
OF COURSE the statement
if (stage = 1) {
doStepOne;
} elseif (stage = 2) {
doStepTwo;
…
is going to always have me doing step 1…
GAH! I r stupid.
Now the question is, do I go back to my single php page design, or keep working on the multi-page one?
Edited on Oct 27th 2002, 07:49 by Hooloovoo
Edited on Nov 22nd 2002, 17:56 by Hooloovoo
rundown of the differences between common PERL declarations and PHP ones
useful if you know one language and want to port code to the other…
Edited on Nov 22nd 2002, 17:57 by Hooloovoo
I just added a small template update for “House of Blues” to the dev version of g-blog as well as a new “Stormy Night” theme. Once Gossip checks them in, you should be able to choose the new theme in your CP.
“Stormy Night” is basically the same as “House of Blues”, but in grey. Let me know what you think. 🙂
Would someone like to tell me who thought it would be a good idea to have the close tab button in Mozilla actually close the tab bar when I have only one tab open AND I have a preference set to always show the tab bar?!
GRR.
I’d file a bug on it, but a search of bugzilla reveals that this issue is already being discussed. I really hope they change this new behavior. That button should be disabled when there’s only one tab open. (Especially if I’ve set the preferrence to always show my tab bar.) You want to hide the tab bar? Use the View > Show/Hide > Tab Bar menu option.
It seems others agree with me. That makes me feel better, (as does this little rant.)
Sorry – just felt like bitching. Other than that, I’m liking Moz 1.1b
Edit: Mi no speel gud.
Edited on Aug 16th 2002, 23:18 by Hooloovoo
So I was looking at some different Mozilla resources today when I came across this little gem.
When I took a look at the “registration” page, I thought of Gossip.
realizes that last statement could be misinterpreted – but doesn’t really care. It’s funnier this way.
It’s basically done.
Except for a couple of funky IE rendering quirks that I’m looking at, hlvdn_blues is pretty much ready to go.
So, ah what should I call it?
hlvdn_blues
hool_blues
House of Blues
Something Else?
I am planning to create some variations, and I’d like to keep a consistent naming scheme. Any suggestions?
Before I forget – here’s the screenshot:
Edit: I pulled the screenshots down, since the theme is now part of GLUE 1.0 RC1
Edited on Aug 16th 2002, 20:57 by Hooloovoo