Or my junk drawer.
This section contains webpages that I created to help others in one way or another but don’t fit anywhere in other sections.
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, and I couldn’t find anything to replace it, so I coded my own, and later, an upgraded version.
Both pages require JavaScript to work.
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.
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.
This is me having fun with coding per se. Some of it is deliberately silly, some of it was just trying to figure out how a coding language would work.
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.
On the WebDeveloper Forums, someone mistakenly referred to &xhtml; as a programming language. There was a discussion on how it was not a programming language, which of course led to me making this bit of nonsense.
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.
With that out of the way, on to the explanation of the pages here. This is 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 does my inexperience show!
I made two versions of the page.
This version had everything—&xhtml;, &mathml;, and &svg;—were included in a single file. It’s an absolute monstrosity at 175KB and would have been a lot smaller if I’d known more about &svg;.
This version has the &mathml; and &svg; contained in seperate files and included through the <object> element (This was before the days that &svg; worked with the <img> element). It used no fewer than 38 <object> elements which meant it required 43 external sources in total (there are four images and a stylesheet as well as the external &mathml; and &svg;), and each external file referenced a stylesheet. The separate &mathml; and &svg; files can be viewed below.
I’m not sure which page is harder on someone’s bandwidth, to be honest.
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).
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.
By the way, if you want to look at the code of these pages, all you have to do is use the View Code command in your browser. As for the other files, which I still think are worth seeing:
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.
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