en-usCopyright 2006palrich@gmail.compalrich@gmail.comFri, 10 Sep 2010 20:53:18 +0000Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:53:18 +000060WeirdLooking.comhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/WeirdLooking.com: Michael Barton's Bloghttp://www.weirdlooking.com/images/feed.pnghttp://www.weirdlooking.com/Michael Bartonhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/blog/assignment-7http://www.weirdlooking.com/blog/assignment-7Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:03:15 +0000I&rsquo;m unable to describe <a href="http://sci.tamucc.edu/~hguo/teaching/fall2005/cosc3353/Assignment7.doc" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fsci.tamucc.edu%2F%7Ehguo%2Fteaching%2Ffall2005%2Fcosc3353%2FAssignment7.doc) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>assignment 7</a>, except to say I&rsquo;m glad it&rsquo;s 1998 again.&nbsp; True to the nature of the required scripts, I have made <a href="http://www.geocities.com/red_bo" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocities.com%2Fred_bo) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>a Web page about my dog</a> and also hosted it on geocities.<br /><br />Most of my effort was put into re-implementing the &ldquo;dragging clock&rdquo; so that it works in both Firefox and IE.&nbsp; I haven&rsquo;t gotten the dragging effect quite right, but I expect I will.&nbsp; I wasn&rsquo;t sure what he meant by &ldquo;a banner with scrolling text&rdquo;, but I didn&rsquo;t want to just write a poor man&rsquo;s version of the <code>marquee</code> tag.&nbsp; So I made some text that moves along a sine wave &#8212; something I&rsquo;m <span style="font-style: italic;">fairly</span> sure marquees can&rsquo;t do.<br /><br />On the plus side, the semester is over in a week.computersjavascriptschooldogshttp://www.weirdlooking.com/blog/assignment-7#commentshttp://www.weirdlooking.com/comments/41http://www.weirdlooking.com/rss/comments/415