01/07/07 12:37 - 41ºF - ID#37572

web programming, part II

Big ups to (e:paul) for explaining the problem with my hover buttons and for offering a fix.

Of course Paul you're right about navigation from the home page not being dependent on java applets...sensible, very sensible.

I did figure out that in most cases IE will load the page and will allow navigation with the old hover buttons, as you predicted -- it just takes a preliminary click, then a follow-up click to actually load the linked page.

But this is definitely not optimal, and those with older versions of IE and with other browsers could easily be stuck on the home page with no way to navigate to others, so that's no good.

I'm going to try to implement (e:paul) 's CSS fix and I'm damn glad to have it. Thanks again, Paul.

If only I had time to update my webpage coding skills past 1998...

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Category: tv

01/06/07 04:55 - 45ºF - ID#37558

God, Inc.

Has anyone else seen this yet on YouTube?

Not as funny as say NBC's "The Office," but not half-bad.

If you are very religious and are easily offended, don't bother. It's not horribly sacrilegious but you wouldn't like it.

Episode 1

Episode 2

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Category: rip offs

01/03/07 10:02 - 40ºF - ID#37530

Verizon can blow me

My Verizon home phone bill went up $5+ this month without warning and without explanation.

WTF????????????????????????????????????????????????

Stupid phone company.

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01/02/07 05:23 - 37ºF - ID#37513

web programming peoples: help!

Hi peeps,

I just spent a couple of hours updating and spiffying up my personal website. Content is not quite done but the layout is pretty much the way I want it.

Trouble is, I have these old "hover" buttons on my home page. I rather like them, but the latest version of IE chokes on them. I assume they are not IE-compliant.

I'm not much of a coder -- all of my html is old and shitty, and I haven't a clue whether these buttons can be salvaged or not. Does anyone know how to fix my page so that the hover buttons will load in IE?

As much as I'd like to see everyone using Firefox (and yes, the page seems to load in Firefox) I just can't live with the idea that my homepage is inaccessible to all those misguided people who use IE...

Here's the offending page:

Thanks in advance for your help, peeps.

jenks writes at 11:55:23 01/06/07 - Comment #14269: paul you're too awesome. that was so nice!

paul writes at 08:03:38 01/06/07 - Comment #14260: The reason that it doesn't work has to do with a patent lawsuit that forced microsoft to add a separate click activation to any external media plugin that displays "rich media" on a page and is embedded through html tags. The roll overs work if you hover over them and then click to activate first in IE. IE had to implement this when they lost a lawuit against Eolas. You can read more about it here :::link:::

To make this work you need to use rollovers that are not java applets. In fact I would say it is never a good idea to have your main navigation rely on external applications such as javas applets. If the user does not have java installe don their system, the links would just show up as blank boxes and there would be no way for them to reach your main navigation pages.

Basically each one of your rollovers is a separate java application embedded on the page. This also slows the rendering of the page down greatly. I would just drop the roll over all together and go with a simple css rollover.

To make it easy, I re-wrote and emailed the page for you as standard XHTML and included a graphic file image needed to make the buttons work as CSS rollovers. If you have any questions email me. You shoudl just be able to replace your page with the index.htm I sent you and include the bg.jpg file in your site folder with the other graphics you have. Once it is on there the pictures will show up.

joshua writes at 11:23:46 01/03/07 - Comment #14158: Troubleshooting for multiple browsers - every programmers favorite task!

mrmike writes at 11:03:01 01/02/07 - Comment #14148: New IE liked it, but I've become a Firefox fan of late. IE is just there on my windows like a wet sock on a shower rod.

jenks writes at 06:18:57 01/02/07 - Comment #14136: p.s. happy new year, missed you guys at the party.

jenks writes at 06:18:30 01/02/07 - Comment #14135: what, no link to estrip? We're offended. ;)
(works ok in safari, btw. the buttons don't hover, but clicking them works.)

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Category: tv

12/28/06 12:39 - 38ºF - ID#21211

dammit dammit dammit!

Oh, why must I go to work tomorrow? Not with a Robot Chicken marathon running till 5:00 a.m. on Cartoon Network!

Dammit dammit dammit!

Ah well. Here's one of my favorite clips found on YouTube:

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12/27/06 09:42 - 32ºF - ID#21210

Christmas 2006 deathtroika

in keeping with the notion that famous people die in "threes" ("deathtroika"), who's next?

1. James Brown (Dec 25)

2. Gerald Ford (Dec 26)

and

3. ???

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12/21/06 11:25 - 35ºF - ID#21209

Alright, fess up.

Which one of you dopes went on an 8-month joyride with (baby) Jesus?

Hmmm... "Joyridin' with Jesus" -- that gives me an idea for a country song...

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12/21/06 08:36 - 35ºF - ID#21208

best Christmas gift evah!...

...for just $10:

I mean really, does it get any better?

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12/18/06 08:56 - 38ºF - ID#21207

e:sighting?

At the downtown BAC tonight around 6:30 pm, I was on a treadmill next to someone who was a dead ringer for (e:jill) , but I assume it was just a case of my overactive imagination.

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12/13/06 01:43 - 51ºF - ID#21206

random cityscape pics from summertime

A random walk through some old subfolders turned up the 7.6 bazillion photos I took while apartment hunting in Buffalo over the summer. I was in the Elmwood area, the Gates Circle area, the little neighborhood north of the zoo, and knocking around Hertel... anyway, long story short, here's some of the pics. I'm not sure if it's because chica and I were drooling over snow tires on TireRack.com tonight, but I am finding all the summer foliage shots comforting.

W. Delevan