Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: JavaScript question Author Message Kristal_Rose #1 posted August 16, 2009 at 4:36pm (EST) edited August 16, 2009 at 4:40pm (EST)   That's a kluge. Easier to write, for sure, but eek, esp. since machine times are all so relative and evolving. The other nice thing about creating one's own event-handler module (which is like Java, come to think of it), is that it makes migration to something like a Flash display easier - no code in the html at all. Of course when I came up with this model I had building an on-the-fly Ajax application delivery platform in mind, not just getting some frikken web page to work cross-browser. I don't recall specific events, just that event sequences were opposite. That said... If you had a page looking for img-click, set up an array tracking img-click and page-clicked, any time either happens (the order depending on your browser), your module checks to see that both have fired before launching your function. I found that robust complex cross-browser js generally requires so much hassle. For large apps though, it's not a terrible hassle because the modularity eases code modification. ~ I don't consider js all that limited (granted, I only use it in conjunction with php now). What's your complaint? The four main browser players are all now racing to create openGL/directX card rendering hooks from within js, which could significantly affect the online gaming market. Currently IE6-8 tops out at managing 2048 divs containing vertices, but even without oGL/dX one could build a slow 3D RPG game on FF. Some features like manual garbage collection sure would be nice though. ~ Lately I've been looking into procesors capable of supporting 1000's of parallel threads, as required for a touch-sensitive stereographic spherical monitor emulating vectored pond ripples to control a musical instrument (by multiplying the ripple frequency inference patterns into the audio frequencies). I can get by with a SIMD chip, recording the whole pixel world as a frame, and caching and flushing pixel-procedure commits one world frame at a time; all the parallel instructions work on their private cache of neighbor-vector data, then commit composite results (in sequence) as if at once. You should know by now that I over-think most everything. Good luck. Look forward to your next rant.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: Pages download but don't display. Author Message Kristal_Rose #2 posted August 16, 2009 at 3:58pm (EST)   Hey, I got my first triple 0 today. That must be worth a jackpot. Also got new machine fired up, though not on internet yet. Kristal_Rose #3 posted August 15, 2009 at 7:21pm (EST)   I've never tried the score feature (perhaps that makes me unique?). The zero page can arrive instantly or after waiting half a minute for a failed page load. I ran out of test replies before latching on to the possibility that this was more likely to happen the page after doing a submit. I'm reading through the sc.css. I believe I've seen the results of not having that on rare occasion, in which the navbar doesn't fill the browser width. So that's not it. That it varies between a single and double 0 is another clue. Since it can arrive instantly, it doesn't sound like a time-out on a js function. Perhaps the garbage collection for page defined js functions in FF is faulty. I don't see haw the score/httpRequest functions would ever be called by me. It's pretty simple code. Mysterious. Kristal_Rose #4 posted August 15, 2009 at 4:03am (EST)   Sometimes it says 0, sometimes it says 0 0. Nothing more. I didn't go as far as downloading the sc.css to see what contributes to what. The main html page seems to contain my chosen font. Hmm, now you have me wondering if there's any styling I've been missing out on all this time. I'm guessing though that I'm getting it all if the page loads and displays. I do often get other websites which just freeze in loading mode. I never thought to check if I could view their page source. Yours is the site though which appears to finish, then displays the 0's. Yeah, the javascript seems a more likely culprit for that result, now that you mention it. I have a terrible sense of passing time. Come to think of it, it's been more recent than last December. I've also experienced increasingly frequent FireFox crashes which seem to be without pattern, often from the moment I load my home page plus whatever else I had up last session. It could be that something like Skype is eating up all my RAM (it is an ancient machine), and thus interfering with javascript execution. No particular pages, or at least no distinction between threads, 'edit', and 'new completed'. The wierd thing is that I can reload the page and it comes out. I just got a new machine with a new OS I'll be switching to soon, so I suppose if I'm the only one with problems, there's no reason to make changes (unless you're a theoretical perfectionist). If the problem persists, it must be something about internet delivery, but I guess we'll find out then.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: fonts Author Message Kristal_Rose #5 posted August 13, 2009 at 5:36pm (EST)   This may be another indication of my suspicion that the css styling sheet comes and goes during browsing. I might try to live without caching and see if that fixes my own blank page issues.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: JavaScript question Author Message Kristal_Rose #6 posted August 13, 2009 at 5:07pm (EST)   Modularize. Write your own event handler. For every method, like widget.onblur() call something like widget.onblur() = myhandler(this.ID). That way you have one location in which to manage firing sequences of different browsers, and divorce html sphaghetti code presentation from code behavior. myHandler would then contain a sort of state machine, which works just as well with the bubble-up event hierarchy of IE as the bubble-down hierarchy of Mozilla (or the other way around.) There is no standard for event firing sequences, and they are in fact even opposite on the two main platforms (at least from the nested perspective). fun fun fun.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: Topic Closed Author Message Kristal_Rose #7 posted August 13, 2009 at 4:55pm (EST)   I'm one of those persons annoyed by threads ever closing. For instance there should be one thread for 'Have you ever been on a submarine?', not several to wade through. I think in terms of persistent files, not passing conversations. Like the jokes, I might on occasion think up a new 'Heloises household hints', but figure the thread is closed by now and not worth posting again for a few new entries. I'm also annoyed when other forums close help issue threads when I have some related issue which has not been resolved. In such forums it seems someone has determined that the subject has been exhausted from every angle, but usually it has not.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: Pages download but don't display. Author Message Kristal_Rose #8 posted August 13, 2009 at 4:40pm (EST)   For nearly a year now I've had SC returning nearly blank pgaes, and it keeps getting worse, like half the time now. By nearly blank, I mean a white page with nothing but a '0'. The html source code is completely there however. I can not tell if the sc.css is present or not (I can't find it searching by name). I've done tracert and have a bad connection to SC (leaving LA to backbone). This problem happens with no other sites though. My suspicion is that some accessory file (css/xml) is required but either not arriving, or arriving too late to be used.

Forum: General Topic: Obama is at work increasing taxes already Author Message Kristal_Rose #9 posted March 26, 2009 at 3:55am (EST)   What all of them have wrong is that stimulating the economy is even the fix. Sure, we have to to have an economy at all, but that's beacuse of our choice of economy, and it's a proposterous choice in a post-industrial economy. A rough summary of how our economy now works is that we all have to make more money than each other to stay afloat and pay off the debt or that siphoned off by the rich. Which means we all have to consume more. and all this ever increasing profiting and consuming needs done by each and every one of us in age where most of our food, clothing, and shelter provisions were half-automated long ago. In physical practice we could all get by with 1/5th the work hours just running the basic food and clothing factories, but NO, we have to spin like crazy to somehow earn our own competitive wages. It's a pyramid scheme which has reached the crash point, and no bank voodoo strategies or bailouts or other taxation/money-printing solutions can help the matter. What we need is to deescalate theoretical progress, work less, produce less (at least within efficient consumable boundaries), and most importantly, spread the wealth of production - otherwise the rich are tapping our individual promises of personal escalation at a time when we've already topped out our service consuming capabilities from each other.

Forum: General Topic: tragic plane crash Author Message Kristal_Rose #10 posted March 26, 2009 at 1:52am (EST)   Perhaps the accident dug up extra bodies. If it was 17 people in a plane meant for 6 or 10, that does kind of explain what went wrong. Next page (only 10 shown here)