Wishful Thinking

Programming is a black hole into which time disappears. The picture on the right is from Wikepedia. There are many more features that I had hoped to add to this project, but the deadline loomed and much had to be trimmed.

Home page

•    Check if Javascript is enabled as soon as home page is loaded.
•    Check if cookies are enabled.
•    Change the cursor to a revolving saw blade, or other threatening device, when the mouse is over the thinker image.
•    Count the number of times the viewer has visited the site, and generate an appropriate welcome.

Menu and navigation

•    Use mouseover to change colours of menu items.
•    Add a triangle or pointing finger to indicate which is the selected men item or current page.
•    Scroll menus so that they are always in view
•    Create back buttons using onClick="history.back()".

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Discuss the tools used

•    Crimson editor.
•    Notepad plus; especially some of the features I haven't used yet.
•    Borland's RAD ide which handles errors and DOM quite well.
•    Amaya 9.99 which has a fair WYSIWYG editor and builds an odd looking tree. However, Amaya has anoying habit of stripping &npsp;s, which I don't want stripped.
•    Venkman's JavaScript debugger is a FoxPro add-on without which I would not have finished.

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Last report page

•    Do not enable appropriate menu item until all the other pages have been visited.
•    Add browser name (vendor).
•    Add browser version.
•    Add operating system on the client machine.
•    Add screen size on the client machine.
•    Add browser window size.
•    Calculate the total time on site, which is quite tricky.