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Gryphon
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"A Successful Test"
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LAST EDITED ON Aug-04-14 AT 00:32 AM (EDT) While I was futzing around with files in the course of building the Goodbye and Hello "Director's Cut" I mentioned over on the Symphony board, it occurred to me that Three Views of Dìqiú, which originally debuted as the "non-Forum bonus" on Mini-Story Omnibus 6, could stand to be broken out on its own - probably as part of The Legacy of Korra Book 6, since it deals with Korra and Corwin before he met Utena. So I started fooling around with that, and then I ran across some stuff that I was sent years ago and then, I'm not entirely sure why, never did much of anything with.Back when Weapon of Choice came out, the old conversation about why I don't like to do whole stories in HTML (besides the fact that writing with inline markup is a bit of a faff) happened again, and the "well, just use CSS" thing came up again, only that time someone - Zack Weinberg, Forum user "zwol" - actually made me a "test sheet" to try and get the thing working. I remember looking at it and, as always when I tried to do anything with CSS, not comprehending what the heck was going on, and then I got distracted by other things (like, uh, having cancer) and never came back to it. I experimented a little bit with CSS to make the Challenging the Cold Silence webpage work the wya I wanted it to, and in the process I dug out and referred to the test sheet Zack sent me. I got it working, but it was like cargo cult coding, I still didn't really get what it was doing. Well, just now I looked at it again, and... well. Look what I just got working. Look what I just got working. That was a small-scale test. I think my next attempt will be to restore the compiled version of A Fire to be Lighted to non-plaintext form, and in the process integrate A Bride Too Far into it as Part IV, since it's the real culmination of that entire storyline. That'll take longer, but should prove a more robust proficiency builder/test, since unlike Three Views, it isn't already in HTML; I'll have to pull it off the Forum and reconvert the code, like I do when I make Mini-Omnis. Bit of a faff, but I won't be able to argue with the result if it looks like the above. That's more or less what I've been wanting the web-based experiments to look like all along... So thanks, Zack, and I'm sorry it took me so long to get around to doing anything with your contribution. Belatedly, it turns out to be exactly what I was looking for. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Proginoskes
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Aug-03-14, 05:00 PM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: A Successful Test"
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LAST EDITED ON Aug-03-14 AT 05:01 PM (EDT) Lookin' good, Chief!I'm reasonably sure you won't have this problem, but I want to warn you about it anyway: when I first got a handle on CSS, I temporarily lost all my sense of aesthetics. I turned everything into angry fruit salad, and I was not the first or last to do so. ((Edited to fix link markup.)) |
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JeanneHedge
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Aug-03-14, 07:11 PM (EDT) |
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3. "RE: A Successful Test"
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Congratulations! I've tried a few times to teach myself CSS through reverse engineering, but kept running up against the wall of not knowing where all the files being called were stowed at. It's a bit more complicated than basic HTML after all ^_^ But does this breakthrough mean that one of these years you'll do official ebook versions? (and I can stop making bootlegs for my Kindle)? ;) Jeanne |
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BobSchroeck
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Aug-04-14, 10:57 AM (EDT) |
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5. "RE: A Successful Test"
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>Look what I just got working. And glorious it is, too. Poking around after marvelling, though, I noticed something not directly relevant to the topic at hand, but... I see that Warriors of the Outer Rim is still listed under FI. Wasn't it supposed to become the central arc of a new "era" to be called The New Frontier? Has that plan been scrapped? -- Bob ------------------- My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite. |
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Gryphon
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Aug-04-14, 01:05 PM (EDT) |
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6. "RE: A Successful Test"
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>Poking around after marvelling, though, I noticed something not >directly relevant to the topic at hand, but... I see that Warriors >of the Outer Rim is still listed under FI. Wasn't it supposed to >become the central arc of a new "era" to be called The New >Frontier? Has that plan been scrapped? Dang, Bob, that's not even tangential, it's almost completely random. :) Anyway, no, Warriors is not supposed to be the central arc of The New Frontier. It probably ought to be labeled as part of NF, since NF is loosely defined as "what happens after the Federation Civil War", but as that hasn't actually happened yet, on account of we were way too quick to assume that we'd mined out the 24-oughts, it's not as pressing a concern as it once might've seemed. So no, not scrapped, but definitely not what you would call impending. I have ideas for major galactic events in the 2410s, but realistically, at this point, no idea when or if I'll get to them, because there's a lot happening before then that I still need to get through first, and my working pace is, I admit, not what it once was. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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BobSchroeck
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Aug-04-14, 04:40 PM (EDT) |
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7. "RE: A Successful Test"
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>Anyway, no, Warriors is not supposed to be the central arc of >The New Frontier. It probably ought to be labeled as >part of NF, since NF is loosely defined as "what happens after >the Federation Civil War", but as that hasn't actually happened yet, >on account of we were way too quick to assume that we'd mined out the >24-oughts, it's not as pressing a concern as it once might've seemed. Ah. Okay, then, I must have misremembered something from way back when NF got announced. >So no, not scrapped, but definitely not what you would call impending. > I have ideas for major galactic events in the 2410s, but >realistically, at this point, no idea when or if I'll get to them, >because there's a lot happening before then that I still need to get >through first, and my working pace is, I admit, not what it once was. I dunno, your recent throughput seems to be close to that from the early 2000s. But hey, if anyone knows the frustration of not producing as fast as they want to, it's me, so I empathize completely. Thanks for the answer. -- Bob ------------------- My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite. |
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Vorticity
Member since Feb-6-12
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Aug-04-14, 06:07 PM (EDT) |
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8. "RE: A Successful Test"
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> I dunno, your recent throughput seems to be close to that from the early 2000s. > But hey, if anyone knows the frustration of not producing as fast as they want > to, it's me, so I empathize completely.I empathize with the frustration of you not producing fast enough too, Bob. <grin> But things have been pretty good at EPU this summer. At first I was thinking, "Oh, not another Korra story; isn't Liza Shustal up to some privateering or something?" But then I found out that we were getting a story about a landing on the moon. And moon shots are pretty damn awesome, so I'm eagerly awaiting new parts of Challenging the Cold Silence. It's stories like these that give me hope that humans will walk on the moon in my lifetime. |
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