licentious radio

Friday, March 7, 2003
[3:00:20 PM]

Some licentious reports:

Duct tape for Homeland Security

Venture Capitalists Protest Naked

My parrot's adventure as a Sunday talking head

LucasFilms to go all-silent

Today's Terrorist Threat: Explosive Breast Implants

Bush: I am not a dumb-bell

[11:25:38 AM]
Way back in 1997/1998 I said HTML needs a clean 'client-side include' -- to let you include a bit of HTML from an external file. The *main* issue is that you shouldn't have to specify the height and width. That saves you from having to assume the user's font size.

Anyway, HTML 4.01 has the Object tag, that can be used this way. Your church-website can include the same navigation bar on every page using the object tag.

The next problem is support. My Mozilla 0.8 doesn't support Object. If you look at Tantek's weblog, he uses Object to include a blog roll. Mozilla 1.1 on Linux displays several screens of it, then leaves a black blotch for the rest. Scrolling line by line converts the blog roll to noise. Mozilla 1.2.1 on Mac displays a screenful, but ignores the rest. Tantek's own Mac IE 5+ gets it right.

I guess this means we can start using Object in two to four years.

[10:38:12 AM]
If Google ads are so tied to the search query, why did "mozilla html object tag" give me an ad for: "GirlSummer Academic Camps"?

[10:16:56 AM]
Tantek Çelik has been writing in some detail about the W3C meetings in his weblog. Interesting stuff.

[Note to W3C: let's keep HTML and variants easy -- for people -- to create and use.]

Tantek's site map is made of CSS hexagons. It's very slick. In my browser-of-daily-use, though, it's even slicker. I use some ancient Mozilla -- 0.8 or so -- which didn't quite have everything right. It turns Tantek's symmetry into chaos: screen shot [opens in new window because screen shots are a drag].