Makes you appreciate how much layouts have improved with CSS. So much layout code in the javascript. And tables. Tables as far as the eye can see.
The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? My Galaxy S3 is noticeably more powerful than my Micron Pentium II system from 1998, in terms of specs as well as actual performance. The fact that it's running Android and not Win98 doesn't hurt.
Don't you think Win9x would _scream_ on your GS3 though? ;-)
We should do it: the Win9x on ARM project!
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you're blind, or trying to render the page on a different-sized browser and the tables are fixed size (because 640x480 is a Law Of Physics).
I've never understood the argument that "semantic" tags are easier to render for screenreaders. Like a screenreader knows that is for emphasis, but couldn't possibly render the same way it renders . Or knows that a must be for layout but couldn't possibly treat the same way (modern UI toolkits build tables out of divs, so it's not like div-users semantically distinguish between layout and actual tabular data).
It's not the tags themselves that are "semantic" but how they are used. The semantic web is a content-first approach, as opposed to using tags to design the structure of your page. If you're adding div's to create a specific layout, you're doing it wrong.
That said, I think that CSS is inadequate for the task of controlling the layout of elements so there are very few truly "semantic" layouts.
It's the same problem as deciding whether an API is RESTful enough or not. Eventually, pragmatism wins over dogma. Still, I think (like REST) the semantic web is a good ideal to shoot for.
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
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...who is paying to keep that online?
Maybe the one person who (supposedly) left the cult to continue disseminating their message? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)... Only one of the group's members, Rio DiAngelo/Richard Ford, did not kill himself: weeks before the suicides, in December 1996, DiAngelo agreed with Applewhite to leave the group so he could ensure future dissemination of Heaven's Gate videos and literature.…
Wow. The more you know. Thanks!
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#215Motocross Madness 2 is also still up: http://www.microsoft.com/games/motocross2/ And this list wouldn't be complete without Midtown Madness (1?) http://www.microsoft.com/games/midtown/ [edit] I'm sure you can find a bunch of others by browsing through the wayback machine ( http://web.archive.org/web/19980214201021/http://microsoft.c... ), like http://www.microsoft.com/games/outwars/
I basically know the geography of Chicago, having only been there in real life a handful of times, because of my time playing Midtown Madness and the various MS Flight Simulators.
I actually got a bit sad during a trip a few weeks ago when I saw that Meigs Field had been demolished.
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#216Why were we so fascinated by black backgrounds back in the 90's? I know I was guilty of it.
Black backgrounds were all the rage in the 70s too, along with green text.
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#217http://www.microsoft.com/games/empires/features.htm Age of empires
MSN Gaming Zone is where all the cool kids hang
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#218Check out all these old trials:
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't you think Win9x would _scream_ on your GS3 though? ;-)
We should do it: the Win9x on ARM project!
Win9x is not a portable OS. Because of its DOS and Windows heritage, the underpinnings are very much tied to x86 and would be difficult to port to ARM. (Although not as difficult as OS/2, which uses the dreaded ring 1.)
Whereas Windows NT has always been portable. Except that Microsoft has already ported NT to ARM.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
We should do it: the Win9x on ARM project!
Win9x is not a portable OS. Because of its DOS and Windows heritage, the underpinnings are very much tied to x86 and would be difficult to port to ARM. (Although not as difficult as OS/2, which uses the dreaded ring 1.) Whereas Windows NT has always been portable. Except that Microsoft has already ported NT to ARM.
Indeed, I realize this. My comment was mainly facetious, I admit. Porting DOS/Win98 would be totally silly anyway unless you needed a blue screen generator.
Porting ReactOS would start to make sense, if anyone wanted that - say, there was a desire to run windows programs on modern mobile hardware without licensing fees (rendering farm? Most use cases I can imagine would be better served by Linux anyway). Otherwise... Emulation such has DOSBOX makes the most sense for anyone who desires to run legacy Win32 software.