Gotta straighten out this page one of these days...
I originally created this so that artists could accurately portray people of different heights by showing (roughly) what their silhouettes look like standing next to each other. Since only two silhouettes are used (one male, one female), this is a rough estimate only, but it should help. (The old Lofty Bearing Forums had a similar and more diverse tool, but that went down with the rest of the site) After a number of requests, I created a second page that allowed for up to six.
The original HTML page uses only two sillhouettes, each of which can be either male or female; these sillhouettes are actually JPEG images. It also allows you to create a special link with pre-specified heights so you don’t have to re-enter the numbers each time you visit the page.
The upgraded page allows for up to six colour-coded figures (male or female) along with the ability to link to pre-specifed heights. The upgraded page is actually an XHTML+SVG page, though most browsers today can handle that just fine.
Both pages require JavaScript to work.
This was created because I had troubles finding the character codes that I wanted to use on various websites. This will display the codes for various characters in UTF-8. Requires JavaScript.
This was created because I wanted a quick reference to any mainstream Doctype I might want to use (as opposed to those I’ve created for my custom XML languages.
As I find it quite useful, you might find it useful too. Also includes the XML namespaces where they exist.
This... well, this is me being silly. This page has only one element, that being <element>
, and was presented to the Website Developer forum. Sadly, the two threads it referred to are now long gone, but everyone agreed I was just being plain ridiculous. Still, it was fun being a goof.
I originally created a page demonstrating a Lattice as a means of experimenting with the combined markup language XHTML 1.1 Plus MathML 2.0 Plus SVG 1.1—in particular, XHTML and SVG—as well as to experiment with and demonstrate this method of multiplication.
Later on, I created a second page to use the lattice to find the Lowest Common Multiple of every number from 1-100. The number: 69,720,375,229,712,477,164,533,808,935,312,303,556,800!
Neither of these are the original webpages. When I first created them, I barely knew how SVG worked and was ignorant of most of its features, so those old versions were poorly coded and had serious code bloat.
If there were any questions about my grip on normality, this should answer quite firmly in the negative. :)
Simply put, this was my attempt at creating a completely XML + XSLT-based website. As I was a fan of Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo II: Lord of Destruction at the time, I created the page based around its runes and runewords.
While it’s not quite finished (which I learned while looking at it for the first time in many years), most of it does work.
What I learned while making this webpage was invaluable in my learning how to create an XML-based database for my website, particularly in the realm of XPath, a means of finding specific parts of an XML file.
This page shows nothing that cannot be found at The Arreat Summit and is placed here to show my experiments with XML and XSLT.
Diablo® II: Lord of Destruction®
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99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall
is not only the bane of any driver taking kids on long-distance journeys, it’s also a well-known programming exercise that demonstrates that programming language’s loop.
During a discussion of whether or not XHTML was a programming language or not (it isn’t), I came up with a way that it could be organized as one.
In no way should this be considered a serious effort at programming. It’s just a bit of fun.
I’m a busker—someone who performs in public for tips—and I came up with this as a quick way to calculate how much money I made in a busking session. While 1-¢ coins are no longer issued and 50-¢ coins are seldom seen outside of collections, I included those too.
I’ve long had a fascination with Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG for short), and decided as an experiment in a pure SVG page, I would create a couple of clocks, which also adds in the challenge of using JavaScript with SVG. Both clocks are 24-hour clocks.
For extra fun/eccentricity/flat-out weirdness, I decided these clocks should also measure moments, a measure of time so outdated that most people don’t realize that it's an actual measurement of time: specifically, 1/40 of a solar hour (a solar hour is measured by a sundial, not a clock). Applying that to the modern hour, a moment is therefore 90 seconds, or 1½ minutes.
It’s amazing how sometimes the most obvious things can elude you.
It was only when doodling with the Pythagorean Theorem (a² + b² = c²) that it dawned on me that the famous equation could be rewritten as the square of a linear equation (a² + 2ab + b² = (a+b)² ).
Fascinated by this, I coded this webpage to explore, describe, and demonstrate that in a bit more detail.
I was bored, and I had a calculator to play with.