I haven’t had much to say the last couple of days. When I read this I was concerned that anything I would say at this point would probably result in a visit from the Secret Service. I did want to point out a couple of things. The first a letter containing questions and a request for a hearing penned […]
Bubbles
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This morning, I briefly turned my retro frames-based theme back on, long enough to take snapshots of the web sites of the various folk who left comments on the 1997 related posts. I’ve linked these at the bottom of this post. If you want to add your site to the […]
The time is now 1997
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Back in 1996 and into 1997, frames were big, as was the use of HTML tables to organize a web page. The current look for this site was copied directly from backup files I had for 1996 through 1998. The links, if you try them, will open up various pages […]
What does work
One of the old DHTML examples that still works is this Dance of the Sugar Plum Divs, using animated objects built on top of cross-browser DHTML objects. Just in case anyone is interested, here are the cross-browser objects, and the Animator classes. This technology is the same that powers AJAX.
XML Introduction
Originally published in NetscapeWorld, sometime in 1997. Note, the examples in this article only work with IE 4.x, and have only been tested with IE 4.01 on Windows95 and Windows NT. Netscape does not have XML parsing built into Navigator 4.x at this time, something that will probably change with Navigator 5.0. The concept is simple: […]
