You could. It takes a lot of planning, and testing is all.
I’m going to set up a section that just shows the non working models that I was trying out before evolving it to it’s current state. Keep in mind that this site is 6 months worth of work. I may have put the working model together in 2 weeks (which is good I’ll admit) but the planning was far off and long ago.
I’m glad you like it though, and that I’ve gotten so much posative feedback on it so far. I really appreciate the opinions of the people here at Kirupa, especially yours Pom.
There are still bugs to work out. My tutorials don’t technicaly work yet. There are diagrams that are suposed to have dynamicaly created buttons, which are supposed to apear on the right hand side. I’ll tell you… if anyone can solve the problem that lostinbeta and I are having it would be a big help.
He’s going to work on it today as soon as I send him something… but, this is the deal.
I like the chromless windows. I want to be able to use that. I know it limits my mac users to 4.5 and above on IE but I have to make that sacrifice if I can figure out how to do it.
Namely, I want to be able to use the code in a/s to produce the getUrl call to the javascript, but I want the name of the html page that it links to to be dynamic.
Interesting idea, and certainly worth adding to that tutorial if we can figure it out. I’m breezing through my php books to see if I can find a way of doing a dynamic javascript that way…,.
anyway… that’s all for the diagrams on the site. I’d rather not shorten my text field in order to have those diagrams displayed.
On top of that, I really need to go through and clean up redundant code, but it’s so confusing at this point that I don’t know what to do that doesn’t break how the thing works. It is far too sluggish at a couple of points though.
oh yeah… and I don’t have a preloader type dohicky that lets me tell the user that the xml is in the middle of being sorted and that no action can occure while that’s going on. Either that or I have to make it quick enough that they don’t notice the delay.
so many things to do… aaaaahhh.
but, I’ve been good. I took a break yesterday entirely from the site and just worked on some art work and things. Probebly I’ll get back to serious work on saturday. I’d like to get the tutorial section working by the end of this coming week at the latest.
I’m also working on a moock robot. On his asdg web page he’s got the little moock alien. I want to do something similar with the robot guy. He’s a little complex at this point though… I need to scale him down and then see what needs to be removed in order to speed up his movement.
again… thanks for the input. I hope people keep visiting and testing and giving it to me. I know it needs work.