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Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by WorldMaker »

dredmorbius wrote: post #426
WorldMaker wrote: post #330

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Semi-relatedly, I think even the linear form of UnicodeMath [1] is very readable, and it would be great if there was more support for building it up into nicer presentation forms in the browser wild (MathJax has had it on the backlog since at least 2015, for instance), as that seems to me to be a better "fallback" situation than raw MathML given its readability when not built up. [1] http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28…

Thanks for mentioning grid, as that's a tool I've not looked at myself. CSS columns and Grid are not entirley substitutable, though they share some properties. I see Columns as a way of flowing text within some bounding box, whilst Grid is preferred for arranging textual components on a page, more akin to paste-up in Aldus Pagemaker (am I dating myself) though on the rubber sheet of the HTML viewport rather than on f…

Yeah, they are very different things. One is for text/inline flow and the other block flow. As a fan of CSS Columns (multicol) I hope that the interaction between Columns and Grid gets better standardized. (In my case I wanted better support for embedding Grids in columns; my tests worked in everything but Firefox. So it is interesting to me that Firefox seems the most interested in pushing multicol forward as a standard [1], since it stopped being a Trident/Spartan priority when Windows 8.1/10 abandoned multicol as a key UX principle of Windows 8 apps.)

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/multiple-column-layout-and...

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by criley2 »

aasasd wrote: post #431
MarioMan wrote: post #355

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>OSX virtualization has a hard requirement for running on Mac hardware. If you aren't a stickler for Apple's terms of service (if you're doing this for business purposes, I suggest you should be), you can use a tool called macOS unlocker to patch VMWare Workstation to run macOS VMs. Runs great, though all VMWare products can only render display output for macOS in software mode.

Run a shady binary that seems to not have a certain author/website, as administrator, so it modifies VMWare binaries? A rather... curious approach, but for some reason common in Windows among e.g. gamers. I've ran MacOS in VirtualBox iirc, without shady patches―though it probably was in Linux.

I have literally never heard of a "gamer" running shady binaries with administrator privilege in my entire life. Maybe you're thinking of the hacker culture of the 80s, but gamers today use launchers to manage downloading, installation and setup of software. Maybe you're thinking of software pirates using scene software as keygens or DRM-defeaters. I suppose that's common among kids who don't buy things (but I don't believe those tools run as admin).

It may be more common in Windows, but I would challenge that since Windows is basically free and runs on anything from a raspberry pi up, the vast majority of "hacky" stuff happens in Windows and Linux. Mac users buy very, very expensive hardware to do very specific tasks, and "hack around" is often not a good enough justification for the most expensive personal computers money buys.

I would also suggest that it in the Linux world where running random binaries as root is most common. Found some random repo that claims it's a fork of a good one with a bug fix? Build it and run it!

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by Moru »

Fice wrote: post #400
tech-no-logical wrote: post #377

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from the mother of all demos (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY&feature=youtu.be... I suppose you mean this video ?

A better link: https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/374/ And also: https://archive.org/details/dougengelbartarchives?sort=title... because youtube videos are ephemeral.

Thankyou, that was nicely indexed even!

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by Moru »

danShumway wrote: post #372
Moru wrote: post #371

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I wish I could find the movie on youtube again, a demonstration of collaborative text editor from 1960-ish. Been looking for it a number of times just this year.

Please post back if you find it, I'd be curious to see.

As posted by Fice above:

https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/374/

It's a very interesting show, how they solved the displays with commercial cameras filming the lcd displays in the lab and sending to the users screen. How the mouse worked, five button keyboard and so on.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by GuyPostington »

m3andros wrote: post #178
GuyPostington wrote: post #167

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This is the internet as I remember it.

Alas, we're not spring chickens anymore... But isn't nostalgia a great feeling? (Frontpage was my very first introduction to a WYSIWYG editor.)

:)
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