Weird Looking: assignment 7

assignment 7

December 2, 2005 1:03pm (4 years, 9 months and 4 days ago)
tags: computers javascript school dogs
I’m unable to describe assignment 7, except to say I’m glad it’s 1998 again.  True to the nature of the required scripts, I have made a Web page about my dog and also hosted it on geocities.

Most of my effort was put into re-implementing the “dragging clock” so that it works in both Firefox and IE.  I haven’t gotten the dragging effect quite right, but I expect I will.  I wasn’t sure what he meant by “a banner with scrolling text”, but I didn’t want to just write a poor man’s version of the marquee tag.  So I made some text that moves along a sine wave — something I’m fairly sure marquees can’t do.

On the plus side, the semester is over in a week.

Comments

Cole
Dec 2, 2005 6:18pm
Mmm… 1998. That’s good stuff!

How come you didn’t host the page on this site?
Mike
Dec 2, 2005 8:20pm
Come on, clock that follows the mouse pointer, javascript password protection, scrolling banner…  It belongs on Geocities.
Cole
Dec 3, 2005 12:28am
I wonder if I still have my Geocities account. Man, those were the good ol' days. Well, not really… but you know what I mean.
Matthew
Dec 4, 2005 12:45am
I am speechless about this assignment.  I don’t imagine I could say anything that hasn’t already crossed your mind.

Oh, and while I don’t think I could do a sine-wave marquee, one can sometimes do nifty things with nested marquee elements.
Mike
Dec 6, 2005 11:50pm
I’d also like to crucify anyone who distributes important information using MS Word files.

At work, I had to interoperate with another company’s server.  Their interface was in XML so as to be platform-independent, but in a stunning twist of irony, the details of their XML format were in a .doc file.  And it was one of those lovely files that Open Office couldn’t handle.

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