It's been live for a while now, but this is the first site I've done for a friend which has really evolved to fit their needs. It's been interesting tweaking it to fit them. Incidentally, it does look good in small screen mode in Opera.
It's quite clear I'm not cut out for this blog malarky, with a huge gap since the last time I amended this page. I've pinched the JavaScript from Rob Manuel's tests, and made a few cheap jokes at the expense of foreigners. I call it Lidl or Jenners Food Court.
No updates for a while, as I've had real work to do, but this morning I got Palm's Web Browser 2.0 to work on my Palm simulator. It claims some fairly hefty CSS support, but infuriatingly does not support media types. So all my experiments in cross browser stylesheets (none of which is linked up yet) look dreadful, with plenty of scroll bars. More satisfying is the trick in Opera 7 to hold down shift and F11, which emulates a small-screen device, and will only parse the stylesheet intended for handheld devices.
It's a little depressing this time, as my tests were unsuccessful. I've been trying out methods to embed MP3 files in web pages. None of them work on IE5 on the Mac.
My experiment in server-side scripting, and satire went live this morning on Real153, my company's muck-about website. Got some good feedback from friends, mostly grammatical.
Then our network went tits-up, and because this page you are looking at was open at the time, it was somehow saved as an empty file. With no back up. However, Google saved the day, by saving a cached copy from about a fortnight ago. Hence any changes to the last two pieces of news are down to my faulty memory.
I've slapped together a page demonstrating an XHTML compliant method of embedding QuickTime without client or server side scripting. It's a pretty ugly hack in places, and the only creative work I did was bringing together the work of others, but it seems to work OK. What with this court case looming, it might not work for very long.
I've added in a couple of rendertests. Well, they've been around for a while, but now you can see them in the navigation. Thing is, even though I knocked the navigation script together only last month, I'd forgotten how it worked. So I couldn't work out how to make the new pages appear in the rendertests section. Then I realised that it worked it out automatically, depending on the folder the pages were in.
Gosh, I'm clever.
Perhaps I'll put in some comments next time. Now that would be smart...
Forgive this appalling blog style update, but this site had a bit of an update. The navigation is now generated in a similar way to the JavaScript Database, except server side, rather than client side.
As usual, when I'm forced to write real code, I got bored and started messing around with the design too. So now you've got two levels of heading up there. If I was really clever, rather than hard coding the navigation array (as it is at the moment), I'd make the thing generate at a touch of a button. But then I'd have to worry about security, and of course all those little pages I create temporarily in /rossa/rendertest/ cropping up with no good reason.
But is in fact a series of ASP experiments and stuff for which he needs a live URL. I can't imagine you're interested, but this directory was originally set up for an ASP course I did in September 2002. As luck would have it, the systems department haven't realised [sic] the course is finished, so enjoy this site while you can.
You might be interested in what appears to be a fan page of the band Queen, but is in fact a test of transparency in IE and Gekko (Mozilla). Or perhaps if you're a fan of yellow and grey, you might quite like this non-JavaScript madness.
At some point, you'll be able to have a look at all the secret extra character which live in HTML and XHTML. I'm still writing that bit, I'm afraid, but it's based on this page from another site. But better.