Month: <span>April 2000</span>

filemenu: A DHTML/JavaScript based pulldown menu!

In case you were wondering why I was digging into Microsoft’s DHTML documentation yesterday, here’s the scoop: I’ve been writing cross-platform compatible DHTML pulldown menus for Frontier. It’s going to be a macro supported by Frontier at the level of the website framework. The menus have their own weblog!

Right now they only work with IE5 for both Windows and MacOS, but more support is in the works.

11.41 PM Udapte: I just got sub-menus working! Yes!

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I’ve been watching a video biography of Annie Leibovitz. I saw an exhibit of her photography in Amsterdam in 1995. I think her work is amazing and powerful. She takes simple images and makes them into powerful communicative statements about the human condition in our times. Great stuff. For me, the most powerful collection at the Amsterdam exhibit was the Rolling Stones series. There’s a picture of Kieth Richards in a back stage room with his son, a slot-car racetrack and a revolver. They looked so sad…

I’ve been digging deep into Microsoft’s DHTML documentation: Objects, Properties, Methods and Events. I like their documentation – lots of examples, lots of cross-referencing, and good indexing.

Yesterday’s Conxion outage was a doozie. Everything’s back to normal now.

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I received an interesting email today. It came from a list I was subscribed to during my time at Sonic: “John Perry Barlow will address the DVD PRO Conference &amp;amp; Expo at 9:00 on July 17, 2000 as the opening keynoter. John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.”

I just got clear of another outage – this one lasted about 20 minutes. Good thing I kept my modem!

K- now I’m pissed! As I was typing the sentence above, the line went down again! Aargh! Update 1:20 AM – the line’s back up. I thought I was paying for the business account. They don’t even answer their phones at Pac Bell Cutsomer Support.

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