[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

well, technically there are standards for html that are set up and maintained by the w3c (https://www.w3.org), but html is an inherently a rather sloppy language – so while yours (and to be honest quite a large chunk of sites) html is technically “invalid”, if it works and parses ok in browsers then you are fine.

at some point it is feasible that invalid html will be deprecated, but that threat has been around for years and has yet to happen, so i think you’re safe for now…

hope that helps! if you have any other questions on this, feel free to ask… 🙂

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

looks like particles – so maybe particle illusion?

https://www.wondertouch.com/index.asp

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

alas, no. the mailto: link tells their browser to use their default mail client, and you don’t really have any control over that, unfortunately… :-/

(plus with webmail, they’d have to log in, etc., so you couldn’t just really pop up a webmail inbox very easily)

sorry to not have a better answer for you…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

alas, no. the mailto: link tells their browser to use their default mail client, and you don’t really have any control over that, unfortunately… :-/

(plus with webmail, they’d have to log in, etc., so you couldn’t just really pop up a webmail inbox very easily)

sorry to not have a better answer for you…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

if you don’t have a ton of text for all your items then the div way is easier – here’s an example i whipped up for you:

https://www.sitruc.com/cow/change_panel/

if, however, you have images and lots of text per panel, then the above is not as good because all the content for all items has to load even if the person isn’t looking at all the items – in that case, the iframe works better because it loads all the content from an external page. here’s a different example i did for somebody else that uses that concept…

https://www.sitruc.com/cow/dyn_schedule/

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you could do a little floating iframe and put the content in that (as a new page) or you could create all the content areas for each director when the page renders and then use javascript to change their display property as the user clicked on things…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

well – it’s flash, so the animation is handled by flash, but for the shots themselves, it looks like he just went old school and scanned a wadded up piece of paper in different stages and then put his image over the un-wadded state…

you could even do that with an animated gif in a non-flash site if you wanted…

siruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ahh – i see. well the wikipedia article is sort of related to what you’re asking then…you can’t control the order in which things are loaded on your page with css, and you really can’t control it in general. typically a dom will load your page from top to bottom, but it won’t wait for a given item to load before proceeding to load another…

there’s no good way to determine via scripting if an item is done loading, however you could potentially try to set up a timer system that used javascript to evaluate the dimensions of an image and then if they were the desired width and height, you could move on to another image…i saw a thread on it once but never tried anything with it. you could basically have an empty image tag or use a filler byte to hold a width and height – then swap the img src with javascript and track to see if the swapped in image has loaded – when it has, you can call a function to repeat the process but on another image on the page and so on and so on.

but outside of that, there’s no good way to control how things are loaded on your page outside of in a flash movie… :-/

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

no problem! 🙂

btw – for reference in case it was confusing, this code snippet:

$something = ($something_else) ? “yes” : “no”;

is just a shortcut way of doing an if/else block – the if/else long way would be like this:

if ($something_else) {
    $something = “yes”;
} else {
    $something = “no”;
}

much quicker the former way… 🙂

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

not sure what you mean by size – do you mean item size? you can use the dom inspector from mozilla to see what order things are loaded in – here’s the wikipedia entry on doms in general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model

that might get you going in the direction you need…if not, please let us know!

sitruc