movement mechanism constructor

[eggman]

*** deleted for personal reasons - with apologies ***

[Quiet Storm]

What? No working example page?

You're gonna make me cut-n-paste, aren't you? :D

[eggman]

Sorry, I don't have a web site yet. I've been offline for over a year and all my old sites are outdated or are being or have been closed. I am in the process of finding a host now. The above was part of a package that managed automated demos.

(There used to be an f2.com that look very promising. Anyone know whatever happened to them?)

[A1ien51]

they went down the tubes, if i remmeber correctly....

goto brinkster.com....they been very stable lately

[liorean]

Try freedom2operate, f2o.org.

[eggman]

Thanks for the info, folks. I'm on it...

Quiet Storm, do you really only develop for IE? 95%+ of my projects have been like that. I dream of a world with only one browser, but alas, browser police knocking at my door keep waking me up...

[brothercake]

If you're only going to code for one browser, you may as well only code for the most advanced, standards-compliant browser available.

But of course if you do that, it won't work in IE :rolleyes:

[eggman]

All too true.

If I was going to make a living doing web development, I'd go to where most of the work was, pad my pockets, then get philosophical after.

Luckily, I don't have to, so pardon me if I get cheeky about browsers and standards. I mean no harm.

[Quiet Storm]

Originally posted by eggman
Quiet Storm, do you really only develop for IE?

Yep.

When NS6 came out and the coding for NS4 wasn't compadible on it's own "Upgraded" browser, I knew the madness had to stop somewhere! :D

I picked IE because I could do all the little 'tricks' I wanted on my site - without a lot of excess coding.

The way I see it, my site is my art. I'd like it viewed in a certain way (a certain museum , if you will)- if someone doesn't like to view it that way, fine. Can't please everyone...

And besides, 97% of my visitors are IE users. :thumbsup:

[liorean]

Hmm...

Version 2: I made homepages for Mosaic. Netscape rendered them better, ie2 worse. No js except for writing out datetimes.

Version 3: IE3 had a cool frames implementation, but otherwise I kept to Netscape 3 Gold - tons of javascript.

Version 4: Ignored Netscape in all ways. Even more JS, but now used for different things.

Version 5: W3C all the way - If Mozilla can do it, who cares whether the others can't?


All in all, I've been a one-browser-developer all the way. Since I'm a hobbyist and not a professional, though, this might be because of my lack of incentive to work in more than my favorite browser.



Today, though, I code for a number of browsers - Moz, op7, ie6w - and try to get ie5m and saf/konq compatibility as well. The first browsers I would drop are definitely the iem, then iew - they are kinda outdated.