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, 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" (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. To use it, 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.
The update pages (upd-*) do not appear in the list, because that would be all kinds of redundant, and I don't want that.

Site Status

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	Content	Date
/
ABOUT		09/05/14
CHANGES		03/11/15
INDEX		09/04/14
LINKS		09/05/14
TODO		03/11/15

/c64
C64		09/07/14
C64CRUTCH		09/07/14
C64GAMES		09/07/14
C64HARD		09/07/14
C64SOFT		09/07/14

/dos
BATS		09/11/14
COMIC		09/10/14
COMIC2		09/10/14
DDAVE		09/11/14
DOS		09/10/14
DOSGAL		09/14/14
ELECTRO		09/11/14
EPICPIN		09/11/14
EXTREME		09/11/14
JETPACK		09/11/14
WOLF3D		09/11/14

/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
/nintendo
Donkey Kong 64 Chk		03/14/12
DK Country Guide		03/14/12
DK Country 2 Guide		03/14/12
Zelda: ALttP Chk		05/22/13
Zelda: ALttP Guide		03/14/12
Mario Pin. Land Chk		03/14/12
Met. Prime Chk		[Error]
NINTENDO		09/04/14
Zelda: Ocarina Chk		[Error]
Super Mario 64 Chk		03/20/12
Super Mario 64 Guide		07/08/16
S. Mario Sunsh. Chk		03/14/12
S. Mario World Chk		03/14/12
S. Mario World Guide		03/14/12
Super Metroid Guide		04/29/14

/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 +		09/04/14
1-INTRO		09/04/14
2.1-MENUS		09/04/14
2.2-CONTROLS		09/04/14
2.3-ABILITIES		09/04/14
2.4-ENVIRON		09/04/14
2.5-EXPNSION		09/04/14
2.6-EQUIPMNT		09/04/14
3-WALKTHRU		09/04/14
3.1-STORYCERES		09/04/14
3.2-CRATERIA		09/04/14
3.3-BRINSTAR		09/04/14
3.4-NORFAIR		09/04/14
3.5-WRECKSHP		09/04/14
3.6-ITEMHUNT		09/04/14
3.7-MARIDIA		09/04/14
3.8-RIDLEY		09/04/14
3.9-TOURIAN		09/04/14
3.10-ENDING		09/04/14
4-WALKCHK		09/04/14
5-ZONEGUIDE		09/04/14
5.1-CRATERIA		09/04/14
5.2-BRINSTAR		09/04/14
5.3-NORFAIR		09/04/14
5.4-WRECKSHP		09/04/14
5.5-MARIDIA		09/04/14
5.6-TOURIAN		09/04/14
6.1-TIPSTRICKS		09/04/14
6.2-TIMELOGS		09/04/14
6.3-BATTERY		09/04/14
7.1-LEGAL		09/04/14
7.2-ACKLINKS		09/04/14
7.3-VERSION		09/04/14

/nintendo/zelda
ZELDA +		04/05/14
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		08/17/14
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 IE!) As I write programs for the local copy of the site, I use the "Big Three" Web browsers—Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome—to test them with before mirroring the site. My philosophy is: if it doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome, it's probably broken on the other three.

As far as Internet Explorer goes, I dropped support for IE 7 some time ago, as it has too many CSS and JavaScript incompatibilities, and I can't keep up with them all. I'm still required to support IE 8 to some degree, as Windows XP is still widely used (and we still have a Windows XP machine that I can test with). I don't test IE as often as the other two, but I give it a try whenever a new version comes out (currently IE 11).

Note that I do not test under Apple Safari or Opera regularly (evidenced by the low version numbers), as I've found both to be rather slow on Windows. I also have yet to test JavaScript on (or even devise a CSS stylesheet for) mobile Web browsers such as Safari and the Android OS versions of Chrome and Firefox, as well as IE Mobile.

	Date	8.0	9.0	10.0	11.0	31.0

/scripts
ALTSHIP	07/22/12
BUTTONS¹	10/31/11
COMMON	08/03/12
EXPAND	08/17/14	²	²	²	²	²
GETMIRROR	10/31/11
SDDM	07/21/12
WIDGET	11/04/14

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 does not work quite right in IE (all versions) or Chrome. I do not know why.

To Do

: In progress : Incomplete, high-priority : On the drawing board

Expand LINKS.

/c64

Complete C64CRUTCH, C64GAMES, C64HARD, and C64SOFT.

/dos

Complete BATS, COMIC2, and JETPACK.
Update DOS with the latest info on DOSBox emulation and game availability.
Start a DOS Game Gallery (DOSGAL), with a screenshot and short description of the DOS games in our collection.
Possibly expand COMIC and COMIC2 to include a walkthrough.
Start Dangerous Dave (DDAVE), Electro Man (ELECTRO), and Wolfenstein 3-D (WOLF3D) pages.
Consider starting Epic Pinball (epicpin) and Extreme Pinball (extreme) 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.
Consider starting a Descent II guide/walkthrough (though it's been quite a long time since I last played).
Consider starting a Descent 3 guide/walkthrough (I just beat the game recently, so it'll still be fresh...)

/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.
Use the new images from the 2013-Sep captures.
Create and complete JJBASICS, JJGMINFO, JJPLANETS, JJITEMS, and JJWEAPONS.
Possibly make a JJ2 Game Info page (JJ2GMINFO).

/nintendo

Complete text guides ZELDA-LTTP-GUIDE and SM64-GUIDE, then build the HTML guides, as with SMETROID.
Start conversion of OpenOffice guides to HTML (or perhaps PDF?).

/nintendo/dkc2

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

/nintendo/smtrd

Complete the HTML guide (currently 63% completed).

/nintendo/zelda

Re-code to HTML 4.01, with CSS 2.1; use the SMETROID-style page layout.
Fix all image refs and links from the 2011 reshuffle.
Finish making updated graphics in SVG (export to PNG).
Completing the guide may wait until I complete it as text-only first.

/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.).
Bring XPSHIPS up to date (I have made 13 new shipshapes since the last update).
Finish colored versions of shipshapes, and decide whether to use SVG images or export them as PNG.