This is me having fun with coding itself. Some of it is deliberately silly, some is just me experimenting with languages I was learning at the time.
This... well, 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.
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.
Diablo® II: Lord of Destruction®
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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 exercise 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’ve long had a fascination with Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG for short), and decided as an experiment in a pure SVG page, I would create a couple of clocks, which also adds in the challenge of using JavaScript with SVG. Both clocks are 24-hour clocks.
For extra fun/eccentricity/flat-out weirdness, I decided these clocks should also measure moments, a measure of time so outdated that most people don’t realize that it's an actual measurement of time: specifically, 1/40 of a solar hour (a solar hour is measured by a sundial, not a clock). Applying that to the modern hour, a moment is therefore 90 seconds, or 1½ minutes.