Slash, along with my other doodads, requires a pretty powered-up apache build. I like to compile everything in, too, as opposed to using dynamically linked apache modules, for arguably faster performance. I have mod_perl, mod_ssl/openssl, php, and the “mm” library compiled in at this point. Here is my script that does it all in one step. DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME, unless you know what you’re doing and you’re willing to poke through the script. It’s a bit out of date at this point, so that would be the first thing to check… I am thinking I would eventually like to “WWW::Mechanize” the script so that it can, e.g., go to the mod_perl website and figure out what the latest version is. Make it TOTALLY automatic, in other words. Anyone besides me have any interest in this? Or has this been done and I’ve just missed it somewhere?
When you display simple text in a browser, the browser will wrap the text at the edge of the page. You get maximum usage of your screen. With standard HTML, you can’t get the same behavior for a series of tables – you can choose to align them next to each other with “align=left” (and they’ll head right off the right edge of the page), or you can use default behavior, in which each subsequent table is displayed below the previous (and you waste the right side of the page).
CSS is groovy, if not a bit cryptic at times. In this case, it solves the problem perfectly – just put a [DIV] tag around each table, and set up the DIV style with [float:left]. Check out the result on my
I’ve framed Google!
After many heated discussions concerning frames, my conclusion is that either you’re a frames zealot or a frames bigot, there’s no middle ground. Well, zealots rejoice! My portal site now does Google framed searches. Type in a search in the google box, hit enter, and the results are displayed down the left pane. Click an item in the results, and the target is displayed in the right frame. It’s the only way to browse, IMHO (being a frames zealot)…
Read on for the techy details… (continued…)
Hey kiddies, welcome back! This site is now running on top of RH9 with the latest patches, and the most recent slash “R” tag, on a shiny new Athlon 1800XP system I built for peanuts. Whoop.
(Know any artists looking for glory but not fortune?)
Available here (Ed: removed, see below), just unzip and run.
Update: OK it’s getting worse, got a
Update: OK the pink’s gotta go, John, what color ya want? 😛
