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Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by Intermernet »

archedeyebrow wrote: post #38
syntheticnature wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your girlfriend's main page is quite nice. The frames link, though, reawakened fear I'd not felt in years. Haven't been to yours, so that her hit counter has a chance to catch up. ;-)

You, sir or ma'am, are a gentleman and a scholar. I literally just created this account to thank you. PS if you know how to make a link target a frame in a nested frameset, please let me know. It must go deeper.

I haven't dealt with framesets for almost 20 years (I'm still scarred), but I seem to recall that you can target nested frames just by providing them with a unique "name" attribute. I may be wrong though.

You may also want to change the doctype header to use the HTML 4 "frameset.dtd" instead of the "strict.dtd". Just change the first line of your frame-enabled pages to:

" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

Or, for extra 90's authenticity, you could use the HTML v3.2 doctype:

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

#103

Post by Intermernet »

Crito wrote: post #93

Here is a weird quirky thing that I have been noticing a lot recently: People taking screenshots that have a tooltip window visible. Is this accidental? An attempt to make the screenshot seem more spontaneous? Did Windows or OSX recently change something in such a way that this is now easy to accidentally do? Are people simply not proofreading their screenshots anymore? Is it a "west coast thing"? I'm being serious.…

I've done this in documentation in order to show a visual indicator of what the user should be clicking on, or filling in next. This is especially important in programs with confusing or ambiguous UIs (Find the "Settings" option in a Lotus Notes email database? ).

Ideally, it wouldn't be necessary, but it can help as an extra guide in docs.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

#104

Post by ffog »

bespoke_engnr wrote: post #22

Oh man, this reminds me of my first shell account, and SDF, and the actual reason I got into computers. So excited. Maybe I could write a little communication API-type thing that these kinds of shell servers could implement, so communities could be linked together in some way? Hmm. That would be cool. I think I just found a good reason to mess around with Rust.

Yes to SDF.org, I ended up going Arpa and then Meta. And COM is still going! Super Dimension Fortress is a bit like a VPS with a community. More about learning than hosting a huge site.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

#105

Post by archedeyebrow »

Intermernet wrote: post #101
archedeyebrow wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You, sir or ma'am, are a gentleman and a scholar. I literally just created this account to thank you. PS if you know how to make a link target a frame in a nested frameset, please let me know. It must go deeper.

I haven't dealt with framesets for almost 20 years (I'm still scarred), but I seem to recall that you can target nested frames just by providing them with a unique "name" attribute. I may be wrong though. You may also want to change the doctype header to use the HTML 4 "frameset.dtd" instead of the "strict.dtd". Just change the first line of your frame-enabled pages to: " rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/fra…

But what I'm after is recursion. Rather than make 20 individual frameset pages each with different target="name"s, it would be way cooler simply to populate each frame area with itself.

Pedantic props for the doctype tip.

EDIT: In theory this should work, but browsers are uncooperative: http://tilde.club/~arch/frames-odd.html

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

#108

Post by prawn »

I got into web design around when it first became a thing. Browsers allowed images, tables permitted layout, etc.

I can remember when you'd be working for a client who had a tilde account (ISPname.com/~client), but then get particularly enthused when working on a job that had its own domain! Those looked so much better in a portfolio!

All pretty tragic to consider now when it's so cheap and fast to set up any old domain and a lot of the charm and wonder is gone.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

#109

Post by scald »

Mizza wrote: post #4

I'm going to use this opportunity to shamelessly plug my tildeclub page: http://tilde.club/~rich edit: Please also go to my girlfriend's page! She's jealous of my hit counter: http://tilde.club/~arch

~rich reminds me of my NWO Wolfpac page on Angelfire. Also, I'm pretty sure this is what PCP feels like.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

#110

Post by nwatson » 

  com aplicação dos dons intelectuais e sociais
  duma companhia grande do internet eu seria chefão
 
  entre a mulherada eu teria muitos fãs
  e eu as levava pelo mundo inteiro num roteiro no meu avião
 
  mais a compulsão de estudar computação
  so resultou em eu ser cidadão do Nerdistão
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