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wow, hah. i’ve been taking

Posted by Steve on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 8:12 pm

wow, hah. i’ve been taking my fiddle to work to practice on my lunch hour the last few weeks, and the last few days i’ve gone out into the woods with pi to practice after work, too. today the darndest thing happened! a white-haired gentleman in his late 40s stopped to listen.. after i finished a set of scottish tunes, he started to make small-talk, and then he sprung this on me: “so.. i work part-time for a recording studio. have you thought about making a cd? if not, we’re always looking for people to call on as backup musicians. would you be interested in coming in to record?”

[aside: *internally, mouth is hanging open* ... externally, "sure, that sounds like fun!"]

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5 Responses to “wow, hah. i’ve been taking”

Alex Says:
Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 9:15 am.

neat
next stop world domination through superior fiddling!

you guys should really make the aside and things of its ilk work cross browser. standards be damned! I mean if it shows up in the reply page, come on…
steve Says:
Friday, August 1, 2003 at 12:31 pm.

heh, that decision was actually mine, explicitly not to support IE’s brokenness - it _is_ possible to make it work, but then the aside functionality is crippled.

basically, to put it simply, IE only supports CSS’s hover feature in A tags, which means asides would have to be treated as anchors, and you cannot nest an anchor in another anchor, so you wouldn’t be able to put links in asides.

other browsers support hover on other tags, which is what we’ve done.

in the next version of the software, you ought to be able to configure it to display differently, just for your user account. (but the ‘next version’ is pretty far off yet.)
Alex Says:
Friday, August 1, 2003 at 3:18 pm.

HEY!
I don’t recall asking for an explanation! I believe I simply told you to change your ways! Less prattle, more programming you!
miles Says:
Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 11:34 am.

drop-in JavaScript replacement
I’ve developed a simple javascript technique that makes segues work in MacIE. And, probably, other modern browsers.

The hack, in its entirety, is:

[<span class="hidelink" onMouseOver='this.className="showlink"' onMouseOut='this.className="hidelink"' >
aside
<span class="hidden">
: hidden content goes here
</span>
</span>]

… and rename the hidelink:hover pseudoclass to “showlink.”

Here’s a working example: [
steve Says:
Sunday, August 3, 2003 at 12:38 pm.

miles == genius
nt

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