6 Ventôse CCXII (February 24, 2004)
Just Under the Word "Emergency", Above the Word "System" and Beside the Sign Saying "Out of Order"
After finally getting the brick of a handheld working again, I decided to take a look as to what I could do with it while waiting to figure out what they go for on eBay. The answer? Not much without upgrading to WindowsCE 3 (aka PocketPC), which is what made the thing stop working in the first place. There is, of course, always the ever trusty Inform interpreter. But the thought of playing text adventures with a soft keyboard isn't my cup of tea, and the less said about CIC's Jot, the better. However, I did notice that ActiveSync went and changed some of my files default handler to something called AvantGo. So, I take a look and find it's a way to view webpages offline on a handheld device. Good enough, install it, fiddle with it, install another version as it needs seperate ones for CE and Palm devices, curse, fiddle some more, and I've finally got it working on both the CE device and my Palm.
Now, that brings me to my problem: I decided to create an avantgo version of this site (no stylesheets, now left menu), but soon discovered that if I wanted to read the comments (via the archive pages), I'd end up back at the normal layout. So I defined a new individual archive template for it. However, I can't seem to find a way to get it to use both templates at the same time. Anyone had any experience with this?
Today's title is worth 1 point.
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", Chapter 21, page 125.
=D
Jesus. The mans unstoppbable.
In another semi related topic, while procrastinating by writing my own browser in java, (I use the J2SE html rendering, I'm not that psychotic yet) I noticed that it wont handle stylesheets on MT sites, yet happily handles stylesheets such as the one linked to
http://dirkdeadeye.ath.cx/~hockey/derek.html
It's not even a relative vs absolute path problem.
Hey, I said it was only semi related.
I'm going to hold off on awarding points here until I can get home and check the validity of that chapter/page reference.
Awww... Who am I kidding? 1 more point for MEAT.
Posted by g026r at 7 Ventôse CCXII 10:22 (2004/02/25)
(And, coding a browser? I'd have absolutely no idea where to even start on something like that.)
Posted by g026r at 7 Ventôse CCXII 10:23 (2004/02/25)
I start coding all sorts of things.
Java has a JEditorPane that will render html for you, all you have to do is pass it a URL. (mostly using the URL(String) constructor)
But I think, if i took two days, I could write a better html parsing /rendering tool. If I get bored enough, and the strike goes long enough.
Christ... About the only thing I do when I get bored is reorganise my MP3 collection.
That or work through how to code an algorithm for Battleship.
Posted by g026r at 7 Ventôse CCXII 14:12 (2004/02/25)
Hmm. Battleship, eh?
You mean how to play it as in handle the playing, like 2 player, or how to play as in AI - wise?
How to handle the AI, so that it can play you and actually have a chance of winning.
How to handle the playing, as in two player, is easy. I did that as a project back in high school.
Posted by g026r at 7 Ventôse CCXII 19:10 (2004/02/25)
(It sounds simple to start with, but actually implementing it efficiently...)
Posted by g026r at 7 Ventôse CCXII 19:11 (2004/02/25)
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