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Love the fact they haven't updated the website to more modern web technologies.
Do you love it purely for nostalgia? Because I loved this as much as you back in the day, but this website could definitely use some improvements to make it more accessible and palatable to students today.
Love the fact they haven't updated the website to more modern web technologies.
Do you love it purely for nostalgia? Because I loved this as much as you back in the day, but this website could definitely use some improvements to make it more accessible and palatable to students today.
trying to think if there is any reason to use image maps instead of svg. maybe slightly easier to generate programmatically the page
The author, Rod Nave, is old, possibly retired, and probably self-taught in HTML 3.2.
Image maps were the modern tech in the years after Fulton County started pushing internet to residents---1995 or so. I don't remember there being any alternatives at the time; CSS was mostly supported by many browsers, but div tags weren't in widespread use.
For a non-programmer, it would be a herculean effort to learn and transition existing material to a new technology, and the benefits might not be obvious to someone focusing on teaching physics to 100 undergraduates most of the year and seeing the widespread, positive impact of the current implementation.
Just make it #ffffff and it looks loads better!
Funny, I've been using the same sort of format for my own notes on physics [1]. Although in my graph there is no semantic meaning between graph nodes, maybe I should add that. 1: https://0x5.be/physics-notes/index.html