> This isn't 1999, where a twentysomething with a web site could land millions of dollars of funding for a web site whose > biggest feature was that it was on the web, and then get put in charge of the company, spend the money on Aeron chairs > and foozball tables, and run the company into the ground.
i find alexa useful to get a rough idea of how much traffic a site is getting. i'd say its rankings have one or two sig figs, but often that's enough... sometimes all you need is an order of magnitude - so while everything CmdrTaco is saying is basically true, the fact that a site has an Alexa rank of 500 or 5000 or 50000 or 500000 says something about how much traffic it gets...
Curious parallel with a BBC story from the year 1612:
"Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Pisa used a telescope to construct a picture of our solar system's activity.
They say Jupiter has moons in orbit around it.
This by no means proves that the Earth orbits the Sun, they argue."
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tried multiple times to import my site's http://www.tourfilter.com/ical">public ical feed into a "public calendar" and it just plain doesn't work. How are Boston googlers going to get their concert notifications!?!!
yes - dynamically creating iframes, sometimes several per page, and each loads on a separate thread,so different components of a page "thunk" in after the frame loads.
I do use multiple iframes per page with no problem. I coded JSTL taglibs that automatically generate mungy-named iframes and their matching mungy-named divs based on the url parameters of the page invoked. It's simple enough that our designers can use the taglibs and decide where to use AJAX and where not to. I hear that XMLHttpRequest has nice goodies but the backward compatibility is pretty sweet for a site that's targeted at the masses. And the guts of the implementation are actually (at least to my eyes) pretty straightforward and non-hackish. It ends up being a single taglib call which expands out to about 20 lines of javascript and 2 lines of HTML (the div and the iframe)... I can live with it.
ok, fair enough. I'll withdraw the "way" - but seriously, Netscape 4's browser share is probably in the single decimal digits at this point. Let's call it IE4+/NS5+... which definitely works for us.
I'm the web architect of gather.com and we use an invisible iframe as a pipe for our AJAX stuff instead of XMLHttpRequest. This works in a uniform way across all browsers we've tested it on with - even way old ones. The Javascript is 1.0-level stuff and IFRAME is standard since HTML 4.
I wonder why more people don't use this approach? I know people hate IFRAMEs, but the ones we use are invisible and 0x0 pixels, so they're little more than an offscreen paint buffer (like BitBlt!:) )
The general approach we're taking is described in this years-old posting on Apple Developer Connection. Anyone else have experience with this approach?
Check out NE power grid real time info, it shows a MAJOR drop off in current flow to NYC at around 4:15, and it's still declining...
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Interesting that lost in this all, without comment, is the irony that IBM, which once represented all that was opposite to Apple and was its big nemesis, will now be the heart of the latest, greatest, user-friendly Apple computers, and that's viewed by the Apple community not just with anticipation and excitement, but with a sense of impeding vengeance, even, against... what? Still, the IBM-compatible PC!
Hey, I'd love to hear how you do that. I use the wet11 do hook up my 3COM Audrey to the net and I'm annoyed by the big extra power adapter I have to squeeze behind my bread box... sounds very cool chrism@idealab.com
I don't think one of the USB 802.11 devices would work because you still have to configure it from the device your attaching it to - SSID, etc. The Wet11 you can configure from another PC on the network. And yes, I'm doing Audrey -> USB NIC -> WET11.
My Wet11 works beautifully with my 3Com Audrey webpad - I can browse the web using this totally proprietary machine without having to stretch a wire from my kitchen counter, where it's nice to have web access, to my bedroom where my cable jack is. I think the device is mainly intended to wirelessly connect devices on which it's not possible to load and configure 802.11 drivers - printers, scanners, webpads, etc. The price difference is not great compared to the latest routers from linksys, which feature bridging, but it's much smaller. I was thinking it would be neat to velcro it to the back of whatever you're using it with.
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> This isn't 1999, where a twentysomething with a web site could land millions of dollars of funding for a web site whose
... yeah it is
> biggest feature was that it was on the web, and then get put in charge of the company, spend the money on Aeron chairs
> and foozball tables, and run the company into the ground.
uh
i find alexa useful to get a rough idea of how much traffic a site is getting. i'd say its rankings have one or two sig figs, but often that's enough... sometimes all you need is an order of magnitude - so while everything CmdrTaco is saying is basically true, the fact that a site has an Alexa rank of 500 or 5000 or 50000 or 500000 says something about how much traffic it gets ...
Curious parallel with a BBC story from the year 1612:
"Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Pisa used a telescope to construct a picture of our solar system's activity.
They say Jupiter has moons in orbit around it.
This by no means proves that the Earth orbits the Sun, they argue."
tried multiple times to import my site's http://www.tourfilter.com/ical">public ical feed into a "public calendar" and it just plain doesn't work. How are Boston googlers going to get their concert notifications!?!!
yes - dynamically creating iframes, sometimes several per page, and each loads on a separate thread,so different components of a page "thunk" in after the frame loads.
I do use multiple iframes per page with no problem. I coded JSTL taglibs that automatically generate mungy-named iframes and their matching mungy-named divs based on the url parameters of the page invoked. It's simple enough that our designers can use the taglibs and decide where to use AJAX and where not to. I hear that XMLHttpRequest has nice goodies but the backward compatibility is pretty sweet for a site that's targeted at the masses. And the guts of the implementation are actually (at least to my eyes) pretty straightforward and non-hackish. It ends up being a single taglib call which expands out to about 20 lines of javascript and 2 lines of HTML (the div and the iframe) ... I can live with it.
ok, fair enough. I'll withdraw the "way" - but seriously, Netscape 4's browser share is probably in the single decimal digits at this point. Let's call it IE4+/NS5+ ... which definitely works for us.
Bovarchist, I agree 100% - see my post below about IFRAMES (posted at the same time as yours it seems). You looking for work? :)
I'm the web architect of gather.com and we use an invisible iframe as a pipe for our AJAX stuff instead of XMLHttpRequest. This works in a uniform way across all browsers we've tested it on with - even way old ones. The Javascript is 1.0-level stuff and IFRAME is standard since HTML 4. I wonder why more people don't use this approach? I know people hate IFRAMEs, but the ones we use are invisible and 0x0 pixels, so they're little more than an offscreen paint buffer (like BitBlt! :) )
The general approach we're taking is described in this years-old posting on Apple Developer Connection. Anyone else have experience with this approach?
... 5000 years from now?
in their eyes, this century will hardly exist.
Check out NE power grid real time info, it shows a MAJOR drop off in current flow to NYC at around 4:15, and it's still declining ...
Real Time Market External Interface Summary
here's one found serendipitously amidst photos a friend took of me. The 3d effect is really amazing! enjoy
Interesting that lost in this all, without comment, is the irony that IBM, which once represented all that was opposite to Apple and was its big nemesis, will now be the heart of the latest, greatest, user-friendly Apple computers, and that's viewed by the Apple community not just with anticipation and excitement, but with a sense of impeding vengeance, even, against ... what? Still, the IBM-compatible PC!
Hey, I'd love to hear how you do that. I use the wet11 do hook up my 3COM Audrey to the net and I'm annoyed by the big extra power adapter I have to squeeze behind my bread box... sounds very cool
chrism@idealab.com
I don't think one of the USB 802.11 devices would work because you still have to configure it from the device your attaching it to - SSID, etc. The Wet11 you can configure from another PC on the network. And yes, I'm doing Audrey -> USB NIC -> WET11.
My Wet11 works beautifully with my 3Com Audrey webpad - I can browse the web using this totally proprietary machine without having to stretch a wire from my kitchen counter, where it's nice to have web access, to my bedroom where my cable jack is.
I think the device is mainly intended to wirelessly connect devices on which it's not possible to load and configure 802.11 drivers - printers, scanners, webpads, etc.
The price difference is not great compared to the latest routers from linksys, which feature bridging, but it's much smaller. I was thinking it would be neat to velcro it to the back of whatever you're using it with.