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I put the possibility of scroll bars back on the left hand side of these pages. Ideally I'd like to have them not appear, but now there are some screens that have too much info, so in some cases they are needed. If I open my screen to the maximum I can (on this 15 inch monitor at 832x624 in Navigator) then I don't get them. How about in IE? On a laptop?
90% done with the proof of concept for building free standing html pages. Very messy, but it's mostly working. I'll put it up tomorrow (I'm sure you're all dying to see it.)
some new functions went up today. Regular contributers can now add different projects (like the main beta page.) This should make it possible to create both public and private discussion areas. I just finished, and I'm kind of tired, so there are probably bugs (the code is getting rather labyrinthine at this point) but I'm sure I'll find them tomorrow. Perhaps it's a little hard to understand / navigate at this point, but more instructions plus better design is hopefully on the way. If you keep using it, it will get better. Thanks.
this one is for our park loving friend.
You mean somebody is reading my page? Thanks Alex. Are those really her lips?
Jim, the TBTF internal link from 1/27 gives me a 404. The direct link from a few days earlier works ok. There I see a pair of familiar lips which I used to be involved with, a story for another time and place, but let me say that I have been initiated into the very deepest mysteries of capitalism (the consumer side, that is) and so I am now a free man.
It appears to be true: the New York Times is no longer requiring a registration to read their web site! I know it was always free, but I just didn't like having to fill in forms of personal info (even though you could just fill in whatever you wanted.) Usually at sites that require a sign in, the name 'cypherpunk' with the password 'cypherpunk' (sometimes the plural) will work, but this never really hooked me up at the times. Now I don't have to worry about it - unless it's just some glitch in their system. I guess we'll know soon.
Posting from work seems to work. Dratfink looks all wrong on this system; the new post is papered over the older material, leaving mostly blank page with a bit of cropped material visible on the left edge.
Always better to have your own. Jim, you can dump pictures 9 & 10; I've replaced them with smaller versions.
I know there is a problem with editing posts where the post reappears in the posting box with a lot of whitespace at the beginning. This doesn't really matter in terms of the main page, but it looks sort of bad while editing. Not sure why this is happening (seems like mysql is adding it in for some reason) but that's on my list to fix too.
I have opened things up a bit to our vast public (ha!) Everyone who hits digitalmediatree.com now goes to the framed main page, although unrecognized people don't see as many functions on the top. Everybody can now click on [ main beta ] so that page is live. Everyone can comment (discuss) Please let me know if anything is not working, or if you have any ideas for making things better and/or easier. Also, we are looking for ideas to make a real list of categories.
starting to get the discussion on line. This is for testing...
i think blogger is down. good thing we have a backup board. when i cant blog i strike with my halfwit venom at overripe windbags. here is my dismissive at cockcrow. hmm, nyt wont let me hyperlink directly to the post on their web forum. not even to the specific page, so if you are interested, my remarks(davement) on the web board are accessible through a link on the page in the safire piece linked to above. dratfinks, methinks. no wonder they employ gasbags like safire and friedman. at least they havent yanked my post like that bastard aol-nyt boardmonitor did to me in the past. i tried not to personalize my remarks this time around.
The most recent updates do seem to have a serious problem. That's second on my list, so for now it's going to be sort of approximate.
new reports on echelon from wired.
this is another test
this is a test
Just a note for everyone to remember about frames (I know, I know, but I sort of like them.) When posting links you have to specify a target="_top" in order to break your linked page out of the frame. i.e.:
<a href="someurl.com" target="_top">
I'm going to try to build something to put that in to links so we don't have to type it everytime. And in case you're wondering, the _top won't do anything if the link is from an unframed page.
finally got a hold of alex's machine, and was able to diagnose the cookie problem. This was the strangest most esoteric problem I've ever encountered (not the most difficult, but the strangest.) I'm sure nobody cares, but it had to do with designating a home page to automatically start up with when you open Navigator. The page was specified digitalmediatree.com (which of course works, because the browsers are smart enough to guess at the real address http://www.digitalmediatree.com.) Anyway, the cookie is sent to .digitalmediatree.com so that it will go to any page in the digitalmediatree domain (i.e., this.digitalmediatree.com or that.digitalmediatree.com, but since it was just digitalmediatree.com and not ...www.digitalmediatree.com, it couldn't find a .digitalmediatree. anywhere, and so it wouldn't take the cookie. Phew! These things can be so picky. Don't ask me how I found the cause, I'm not really sure. But now you know. Specifiy the whole address (http://...) when setting up preferences in your browser if you want to escape strange cookie problems.
i was trying to find something to contribute to test the contribute so i clicked on my open windows to see what i had been reading earlier before i went out. and then i noticed that the page was moving. and i had wondered why i had been prompted by a security alert that a microsoft plugin was necessary to proceed with what i wasnt sure. but now i see the ticker. nice but its twenty minutes delayed. ill take the datek realtime streamer. although i like the hypertext newsticker and the control variables. i saw cnbc was plugging some realtime ticker all weekend too. guess thats the next online trader app.
just filling in some data to test the category functions. This is a direct rip-off of (I mean, I was inspired by) memepool.
more in a series of endless tests. bwahahahah.
Had some unforseen problems with the cookies tonight. Those things are tricky. Hopefully that is worked out now. I'll try to get the discussion scripts going tomorrow, and then it'll just be a matter of making it all look/work better.
This is the ever progressing beta of the new main page. All functionality is local (i.e., this is the blogger replacement.) The guts are working with the exception of the discussion features, but none of the interface is finalized. The layout will definitely be changing.