CSS]]> DTD]]> Doctype]]> HTML]]> JS]]> MathML]]> SVG]]> XHTML]]> XML]]> XSLT]]> There are a number of coding things I’ve done over the years that exist as self-contained specialty webpages. Some were created as tools for others, some as experiments, and some simply as jokes. While I do have standalone sections elsewhere on my website—like my &html; tutorial in the Library and my DragonSpeak pages under the Furcadia section—these just don’t fit anywhere on my webpages. So consider this the webpage version of my curio cabinet.

Or my junk drawer.

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Tools For Others This section contains webpages that I created to either help others in one way or another (or to help me but thought others might find useful) but don’t fit anywhere in other sections.

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Coding Experiments And Goof-Arounds This is me having fun with coding per se. Some of it is deliberately silly, some is just me experimenting with languages I was learning at the time.

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Math Experiments I’ve done a few math experiments here and there, mostly pertaining to the Lattice. The lattice is a method of multiplication that uses a kind of grid. It was in vogue in the Elizabethan era, though I’ve used it a few times myself.

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Comparing Heights I originally created this so that artists could accurately portray people of different heights by showing (roughly) what their silhouettes look like standing next to each other. Since only two silhouettes are used (one male, one female), this is a rough estimate only, but it should help. (The old Lofty Bearing Forums had a similar and more diverse tool, but that went down with the rest of the site) After a number of requests, I created a second page that allowed for up to six.

The original &html; page uses only two sillhouettes, each of which can be either male or female; these sillhouettes are actually JPEG images. It also allows you to create a special link with pre-specified heights so you don’t have to re-enter the numbers each time you visit the page.

The upgraded page allows for up to six colour-coded figures (male or female) along with the ability to link to pre-specifed heights. The upgraded page is actually an &xhtml;+&svg; page, though most browsers today can handle that just fine.

Both pages require JavaScript to work.

]]> The Original Page UTF-8 Numerical Character References This was created because I had troubles finding the character codes that I wanted to use on various websites. This will display the codes for various characters in UTF-8. Requires JavaScript.

]]> Document Type Declarations This was created because I wanted a quick reference to any mainstream Doctype I might want to use (as opposed to those I’ve created for my custom &xml; languages.

As I find it quite useful, you might find it useful too. Also includes the &xml; namespaces where they exist.

]]> ElementML This... is me being silly. This page has only one element, that being <element>, and was presented to the Website Developer forum. Sadly, the two threads it referred to are now long gone, but everyone agreed I was just being plain ridiculous. Still, it was fun being a goof.

]]> The Lattice This was my first serious effort with the markup language known as &xhtml; 1.1 plus &mathml; 2.0 plus &svg; 1.1. Judging from the dates on the files, I created this way back in 2008 and did my inexperience show, with one page being a 145Kb monstrosity! In 2020 I completely revamped the page, cutting down on a ton of code (seriously, it's about fifth of what it once was), and that stripped-down version is what’s on my page today.

]]> Lowest Common Multiple of Every Number from 1 - 100 This is another of my &xhtml; 1.1 plus &mathml; 2.0 plus &svg; 1.1 pages and demonstration of The Lattice. This one was created to answer a question that I’d long had: what is the lowest common multiple of every number from 1 - 100?

Answer: 69,720,375,229,712,477,164,533,808,935,312,303,556,800 (but see the page to find out how I got that number).

]]> Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Runes and Rune Words If there were any questions about my grip on normality, this should answer quite firmly in the negative. :)

Simply put, this was my attempt at creating a completely &xml; + &xslt;-based website. As I was a fan of Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo II: Lord of Destruction at the time, I created the page based around its runes and runewords.

While it’s not quite finished (which I learned while looking at it for the first time in many years), most of it does work.

What I learned while making this webpage was invaluable in my learning how to create an &xml;-based database for my website, particularly in the realm of XPath, a means of finding specific parts of an &xml; file.

This page shows nothing that cannot be found at The Arreat Summit and is placed here to show my experiments with &xml; and XSLT.

The Legally Required Copyright Notice

Diablo® II: Lord of Destruction®

©2001 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. Diablo, Lord of Destruction and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

]]> 99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall is not only the bane of any driver taking kids on long-distance journeys, it’s also a well-known programming exersize that demonstrates that programming language’s loop.

During a discussion of whether or not XHTML was a programming language or not (it isn’t), I came up with a way that it could be organized as one.

In no way should this be considered a serious effort at programming. It's just a bit of fun.

]]> I’m a busker—someone who performs in public for tips—and I came up with this as a quick way to calculate how much money I made in a busking session. While 1-¢ coins are no longer issued and 50-¢ coins are seldom seen outside of collections, I included those too.

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