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Finding The Time
Also relates to Peregrinations
No I haven't discorporated! Just, in the past few weeks I have seen such a short supply of time, that keeping up with this weblog was futile. The world of the web developer chasing standards is certainly a varied and very busy one! Then there is the added requirement of managing my personal business affairs, a full time occupation in itself before even getting down to coding.
I have also been toying with the idea of replacing my blogging software with the excellent Wordpress, but having come so far with my own code, I have decided instead to improve my own system (integrating features like Trackback and Ping) and this has taken up much of the time I would normally dedicate to blogging. Then there has been the hammer on the head scenario to come up with a entry for the GAWDS Redesign Competition. I had hoped that the pressure of the encroaching deadline would provide that sudden flash of inspiration, but my head is awash with code at the moment. There is still time if you haven't got an entry in yet!
On top of all this, Euro 2004 is underway and, dare I say it, BB5 is providing countless hours of addictive emotional voyeurism!
Actually, brief aside. I have been somewhat disappointed with the cumbersome and inaccessible website supporting BB5. Due to the sluggish load time I decided to take a tour in my Lynx browser, my first stop being the popularity page - a feature I run to before placing any bets with friends. Flash dependant interface, a total non-starter :(.
Anyway, back to the present, or lack of present! For I feel like I am constantly living in the future at the moment, or more accurately a circular dimension of time - one plain, one point, one moment. Enough of the metaphysics, here follows some catch up blogging from recent days…
Posted on Jun 20, 2004 at 04:33:39. [Comments for Finding The Time- 0]
Undergoing Changes
Also relates to Peregrinations
A Quick notification…. Currently undergoing a number of changes on my web site and the presentation of my blog. During this time, the site, blog or certain pages may be unavailable….
Posted on Jan 20, 2004 at 19:23:19. [Comments for Undergoing Changes- 2]
Comments Form Added
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A comments submission form has now been added to this Blog. Still in it's rough, hewn stage, so apologies if it bugs out on anyone. Initial tests have run ok. The form accepts inline XHTML 1.0 elements from %phrase; and %special;, along with blockquote, address and p. That is most of the common markup used on paragraph content (eg code, em, strong, abbr, acronym). If you use markup in a comment, please ensure it is well formed. A simple parser will test for errors in well-formedness, and invalid nesting.
Posted on Jul 13, 2003 at 01:09:31. [Comments for Comments Form Added- 0]
Personal Aggreg8or
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Before I even got round to building this blog, I actually started out building an aggregator using PHP to parse RSS news feeds. This is
a simple interface with an iframe (to comply with XHTML Strict) containing a separate document parsed as XHTML showing the news feed.
It has some of the blogs I spend most time reading, so I can quickly switch between them and keep track of the latest news and gossip.
Posted on Jul 11, 2003 at 04:37:39. [Comments for Personal Aggreg8or- 0]
Fresh Look To Blog
Also relates to CSS Design
Since the logs seem to be showing a few visits to this blog, I decided to throw in a bit of style
as it was all looking a bit plain. Kept things simple, clear and accessible, but in a hurry I nearly ran
into a wall, when I failed to account for the content pane being less than the size of the screen window.
Once again DOM came to the rescue in browser Standards Modes, with a simple script to retrieve the height of the window pane and individual
div containers:
document.getElementById("id").offsetHeight (for the height of a container)
document.getElementById("id").offsetTop (to get the top pixel position of a container)
Then the container can be resized on the fly as the page loads, or window is resized. The DOM inspector in Mozilla is excellent for working with all the DOM properties and testing scripts that manipulate the document tree quickly and accurately. Don't know how I got by without it now!
I also wanted to apply fixed positioning to the menu, so this property is also added on page load following a browser
detection script, since div {position:fixed} does not place the container in the right place in IE - where absolute
positioning is assigned instead.
Posted on Jul 11, 2003 at 03:13:56. [Comments for Fresh Look To Blog- 0]
