{"id":82,"date":"2005-08-31T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/08\/a-month-in-review"},"modified":"2006-04-30T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T23:34:30","slug":"month-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/08\/month-review","title":{"rendered":"A Month in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everybody. As this month draws to a close, I realise it\u2019s been about 45\r\n\tdays since I posted last. Enough is enough; it\u2019s time I get this blog going\r\n\tagain. So, I figured I\u2019d kick it off again with a review of my activities over\r\nthe last month and a half, and hopefully explain where I\u2019ve been all this time.<\/p>\r\n

In the second last week of July, from the 18th to the 22nd, I enjoyed a\r\n\twonderful week of skiing the slopes at Perisher. It\u2019d been 2 years since\r\n\tI\u2019d skied last, but after just a bit of a wobbly start, I was up and going\r\n\tagain like a pro! Well, not quite; but I did manage to make my way down most\r\n\tof the blue and black runs, even if it did involve a fair bit of falling.<\/p>\r\n

As well as skiing, I managed to build my first snowman. It was quite an achievement\r\n\tfor a first effort, at just over 1\/2 a metre tall (approx. 2 feet). This was\r\n\tlater followed by a second attempt at the end of the week, over twice the height\r\n\tof the first. I\u2019d post some photos to show you, but I don\u2019t have them with me;\r\n\tmaybe another time, if I remember.<\/p>\r\n

Following the ski trip, I finally made an appointment to get my eyes tested.\r\n\tI figured, since I was having trouble reading the menu board at McDonalds, it\r\n\twas time to get them checked. Well, it turned out I needed glasses and I am\r\n\treally surprised at the improved eye sight they\u2019ve given me. Watching TV no\r\n\tlonger involves moving closer and\/or squinting at the screen and even looking\r\n\tat a computer monitor all day is easier.<\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s been about 2 months since I started working full time at HotHouse<\/a> as\r\n\ta web developer, primarily writing HTML, CSS and occasionally, a little bit\r\n\tof JavaScript. I am enjoying working there a lot and, in fact, the first site\r\n\tI built from scratch while working there will be launching very shortly; I\u2019ll\r\n\tgive more details when it does.<\/p>\r\n

Over the past 2 weeks, I\u2019ve been putting in a lot of effort toward a more\r\n\tpersonal project involving a lot of JavaScript. I\u2019m actually helping out Eric\r\n\tMeyer by going through his world\r\n\tfamous S5 script<\/a>, cleaning it up, pulling it\r\n\tapart, rewriting and restructuring entire sections of it making it completely\r\n\tobject-oriented.<\/p>\r\n

You can take a look at my current\r\n\t\twork<\/a>, browse through the scripts and see\r\n\ta functioning Slide() object that can show, hide, increment and decrement slides.\r\n\tIt\u2019s been tested in Firefox, Opera and IE. Let me know if you find any issues\r\n\twith any other browser, particularly Mac and Linux browsers. If you can suggest\r\n\ta fix for any problems, that would be even better.<\/p>\r\n

One of the design goals of this project is to fix all the issues that prevent\r\n\tthe script from functioning in Opera without having to fallback to OperaShow,\r\n\tas well as making it more modular and easier to extend with new features and\r\n\tfunctionality. Another design goal is to actually make the script work for real\r\n\tXHTML served as XML (not just tag-soup served as text\/html), with namespace\r\n\tsupport (including mixed namespace documents).<\/p>\r\n

In fact, the document.getElementsByClassName()<\/code> and related functions I wrote\r\n\tfor this already support XHTML<\/abbr>, SVG<\/abbr> and MathML namespaces. (There are some issues\r\n\twith the Element.addClassName()<\/code> and Element.removeClassName()<\/code> functions relating\r\n\tto the case-insensitivity of HTML and case-sensitivity of XML, but I\u2019ll write\r\n\tand publish the fixes for those later \u2013 it\u2019s easy to fix, I just have to find\r\n\tthe time to do it).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As this month draws to a close, I realise it\u2019s been about 45 days since I posted last. Enough is enough; it\u2019s time I get this blog going again. So, I figured I\u2019d kick it off again with a review of my activities over the last month and a half, and hopefully explain where I\u2019ve been all this time.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}