Site Status/To Do

This incarnation of my website was (and still is!) a project many years in the making; its roots go allllll the way back to the now-defunct GeoCities site. Much of the time has been spent (or wasted) coding frame/virtual frame pages, learning and implementing CSS 2.1, and attempting to conform to HTML 4.01, as well as learning JavaScript on the side. (If you're curious about the gritty history of the site, or just want to play with the collapse-a-widget, you can read the change log of this site.)

Notes:

Key: [TAG], Directory, CSS, HTML, HTML Element, JavaScript, OpenOffice Document, Text.

The date-stamps on this page, unlike the rest of the site, are in the web server's local time (UTC-05:00, US Eastern Time), not UTC, because they are implemented with SSI. (The only exception is the JS mirror stamp below, which is UTC offset to your local time zone. I think.)
The "collapse-a-widget" has at long last been unified; the new version, widget, can collapse table rows as well as any block element (such as p and div). I got the idea for how to do it from the Simple Drop-Down Menu (sddm), which uses inline function calls targeting a specific element. The new widget also has a workaround for the visibility: collapse issue (it simply reverts to the display method).
To use the collapse-a-widget, simply click on a row that has an underlined filename with a plus (+) next to it to expand that section, and again to collapse it.

Site Status

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	Content	Date	HTML/CSS
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ABOUT		12/14/12
CHANGES		12/14/12
INDEX		12/14/12
LINKS		12/14/12
TODO		12/14/12

/c64
C64		08/05/12
C64CRUTCH		08/05/12
C64GAMES		08/05/12
C64HARD		08/05/12
C64SOFT		08/05/12

/dos
BATS		08/05/12
COMIC		09/06/12
COMIC2		09/06/12
DOS		08/05/12
JETPACK		08/05/12

/dos/descent
D1BASICS		08/31/12
D1GMINFO		08/31/12
D1LEVELS +		08/31/12
D1_LVL01		08/26/12
D1_LVL02		08/26/12
D1_LVL03		08/26/12
D1_LVL04		08/25/12
D1_LVL05		08/26/12
D1_LVL06		08/26/12
D1_LVL07		08/26/12
D1_LVL08		08/26/12
D1_LVL09		08/26/12
D1_LVL10		08/26/12
D1_LVL11		08/26/12
D1_LVL12		08/26/12
D1_LVL13		08/26/12
D1_LVL14		08/27/12
D1_LVL15		08/27/12
D1_LVL16		08/27/12
D1_LVL17		08/27/12
D1_LVL18		08/27/12
D1_LVL19		08/27/12
D1_LVL20		08/27/12
D1_LVL21		08/27/12
D1_LVL22		08/27/12
D1_LVL23		08/27/12
D1_LVL24		08/27/12
D1_LVL25		08/27/12
D1_LVL26		08/27/12
D1_LVL27		08/27/12
D1_LVLS1		08/26/12
D1_LVLS2		08/27/12
D1_LVLS3		08/27/12
D1ROBOTS		08/31/12
D1WEAPONS		08/31/12
D2GMINFO		08/31/12
D3GMINFO		08/31/12
DESCENT		08/31/12

/dos/jazz
JAZZ		05/10/11
JAZZITEMS		05/10/11
JAZZOBJECTS		05/10/11
JAZZPLANETS +		05/10/11
JJE1		05/10/11
JJE2		05/10/11
JJE3		05/10/11
JJE4		05/10/11
JJE5		05/10/11
JJE6		05/10/11
JJEA		05/10/11
JJEB		05/10/11
JJEC		05/10/11
JJEX		05/10/11
JJEX95		05/10/11
JJEZ_BONUS		05/10/11
JAZZWEAPONS		05/10/11

	Content	Date	HTML/CSS
/nintendo
DKC2 Guide		03/14/12
DK64 Checklist		03/14/12
DKC Guide		03/14/12
LOZ Checklist		03/14/12
LOZ Guide		03/14/12
MPL Checklist		03/14/12
NINTENDO		08/15/12
SM64 Checklist		04/08/12
SM64 Guide		04/08/12
SMS Checklist		03/14/12
SMW Checklist		03/14/12
SMW Guide		03/14/12
SMET Guide		05/10/11

/nintendo/dkc2
DKC2 +		08/05/12
01-INTRO		07/23/12
02-BASICS		07/23/12
03-GAMEPLAY		07/23/12
04-ITEMS		07/23/12
05-CHARS		07/23/12
06-COINS		07/23/12
07-KONGLTRS		07/23/12
08-SECRETS		07/23/12
09-BOSSES		07/23/12
10-SOURCES		07/23/12

/nintendo/smtrd
SMETROID +		07/23/12
01-INTRO		07/23/12
02-BASICS		07/23/12
03-GAMEPLAY		07/23/12
04-ITEMS		07/23/12
05-ENEMIES		07/23/12
06-WALKTHRU		07/23/12
06A-WALK1		07/23/12
06B-WALK2		07/23/12
06C-WALK3		07/23/12
06D-WALK4		07/23/12
06E-WALK5		07/23/12
07-SOURCES		07/23/12

/nintendo/zelda
ZELDA +		08/05/12
01-INTRO		08/05/12
02-STORY		08/05/12
03-CONTROLS		08/05/12
04-ITMEQUIP		08/05/12
04A-POWERUPS		08/05/12
04B-DUNGEON		08/05/12
04C-EQUIP		08/05/12
04D-ITEMS		08/05/12
05-PIECESHRT		08/05/12
06-SHOPFAIRY		08/05/12
06A-HYSHOPS		08/05/12
06B-DWSHOPS		08/05/12
06C-HYFAIRY		08/05/12
06D-DWFAIRY		08/05/12
07-HYRULE		08/05/12
08-HYWALK		08/05/12
08-1-HYCAST		08/05/12
08-2-EPALACE		08/05/12
08-3-DPALACE		08/05/12
08-4-TWRHERA		08/05/12
08-5-HYCTWR		08/05/12
09-DARKWORLD		08/05/12
10-DWWALK		08/05/12
10-1-PALDARK		08/05/12
10-2-FLDPAL		08/05/12
10-3-SKELFOR		08/05/12
10-4-BLINDS		08/05/12
10-5-ICELAKE		08/05/12
10-6-MISMIRE		08/05/12
10-7-TURTLE		08/05/12
10-8-TWRGAN		08/05/12
10-9-PYRAMID		08/05/12
11-SOURCES		08/05/12

/xpilot
XPCMAPS		08/05/12
XPDOWN		08/05/12
XPGALLERY		08/05/12
XPILOT		08/05/12
XPIMAPS_1		08/05/12
XPIMAPS_2		08/05/12
XPIMAPS_2_PFT3		08/05/12
XPNEWBIE +		08/05/12
XPNEWB_01		08/10/12
XPNEWB_02		08/10/12
XPNEWB_03		08/05/12
XPNEWB_04		08/05/12
XPPIPER		08/05/12
XPSHIPS +		08/05/12
XPSHIPS_0-B		08/05/12
XPSHIPS_BOT		08/05/12
XPSHIPS_C-E		08/05/12
XPSHIPS_F-I		08/05/12
XPSHIPS_J-O		08/05/12
XPSHIPS_P-S		08/05/12
XPSHIPS_T-Z		08/05/12

HTML/CSS Conformance Notes

As of this writing, the pages with a checkmark in the HTML/CSS column above have been validated (using the Validator icons at the bottom of each page) to conform to the W3C's HTML 4.01 (Strict; Transitional where necessary) and CSS 2.1 Recommendations, with the following exceptions:

Many pages – The HTML5 custom data attribute (data-*) is used on many elements, mostly img.

REASON: Though HTML5 is still a Working Draft (hasn't been published as an official Recommendation), the custom data attribute is far too useful for scripting to be left out, so there it is. Wouldn't have been able to make the shipshape images change back and forth without it.
XPSHIPS – The proprietary Microsoft attribute allowtransparency="true" is applied to the iframe element that contains the ship pages.

REASON: This is basically a kludge in order to get transparency in inline frames to work for Internet Explorer 8. I dislike using kludges, but I tried and was unable to get any CSS solutions to work. (Why? Because frankly, IE versions prior to 9 are select, grade-A garbage for their inadequate CSS conformance, JavaScript incompatibility, and reliance on proprietary methods, while at the same time every other browser was leaps and bounds ahead of them. I'm sure many other web page designers would agree.)
XPIMAPS_1 – The CSS3 opacity property is used for image overlays.

REASON: Because it's useful, that's why.

Speaking of JavaScript compatibility…

JavaScript Compatibility

While I've been learning JavaScript, I've discovered, like so many other Web programmers, that getting JS to work as intended with every browser is like pulling teeth. (Especially Internet Explorer!) As I write programs to test on our local web server, I use a group of browsers to try them with. My philosophy is: if it doesn't work in Chrome or Firefox, it's probably broken on the other three.

Note that I do not test under Safari or Opera regularly, as I've found both to be rather slow on Windows. I have also dropped support for IE 7, since anyone still using Windows XP has (hopefully) installed IE 8. IE 7 has too many CSS and JavaScript incompatibilities, and I can't keep up with them all.

	Date	8.0	9.0	21.0

/scripts
ALTSHIP	07/22/12
BUTTONS¹	10/31/11
COMMON	08/03/12
EXPAND	10/31/11	²	²	²
GETMIRROR	10/31/11
SDDM	07/21/12
WIDGET	08/10/12

¹ This will be slowly phased out in favor of the new CSS-defined buttons for the SDDM.

² The centering and/or scrolling of the overlaid image doesn't work quite right in some browsers (Chrome, and IE8/9).

To Do

Expand LINKS.

/c64

Implement new page layout, with new page banner and logo.
Complete C64CRUTCH, C64GAMES, C64HARD, and C64SOFT.

/dos

Implement new page layout, with new page banner and logo.
Complete BATS, COMIC2, and JETPACK.
Possibly expand COMIC and COMIC2 to include a walkthrough.
Update DOS with the latest info on DOSBox emulation and game availability.
Start Electro Man and Wolfenstein 3-D pages.

/dos/descent

Complete D1 walkthroughs.
Complete D1BASICS.
Complete D2GMINFO and D3GMINFO, and update all three Game Info pages with the latest availability and compatibility info.

/dos/jazz

Re-code to HTML 4.01, with CSS 2.1; either use the new page layout, or make one similar to the Descent pages.
Fix all image refs and links from the 2011 reshuffle.
Create and complete JJBASICS, JJGMINFO, JJPLANETS, JJITEMS, and JJWEAPONS.
Possibly make a JJ2 Game Info page (JJ2GMINFO).

/nintendo

Complete SM64 Guide.
Complete SMS Checklist.
Start conversion of OpenOffice guides to HTML.

/nintendo/dkc2

Re-code to HTML 4.01, with CSS 2.1; use the new page layout.
Fix all image refs and links from the 2011 reshuffle.
Complete the guide.

/nintendo/smtrd

Re-code to HTML 4.01, with CSS 2.1; use the new page layout.
Fix all image refs and links from the 2011 reshuffle.
Complete the guide.

/nintendo/zelda

Re-code to HTML 4.01, with CSS 2.1; use the new page layout.
Fix all image refs and links from the 2011 reshuffle.
Finish making updated graphics in SVG (export to PNG).
Complete the guide.

/xpilot

Implement new page layout, with new page banner and logo.
Complete XPNEWBIE.
Expand XPCMAPS, XPIMAPS_1, and XPIMAPS_2 to include basic map information (# of bases, teams, etc.).
Add some more maps to XPCMAPS.
Finish colored versions of shipshapes, and decide whether to use SVG images or export them as PNG.

Notes:

Site Status

HTML/CSS Conformance Notes

JavaScript Compatibility

To Do

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