Saturday, January 18, 2014
Yay!
Yaaaay! Not quite the Rapture, but good enough for today.
Finally solved a strange problem in HTML/JS/SVG. I'd been using an 'object' tag to contain a switchable piece of code, so the courseware could turn pages. This worked about 60% of the time, in a completely irregular way. I couldn't tell which pages were 'good' and 'bad' because the sequence was never the same. Start up once, and get pages 1,2,3. Start up again and get pages 1,5,11.
Most of the online forums seemed to recommend 'object' for this usage, so I left it in place way too long. It turns out that 'iframe' works perfectly here and 'object' sort of halfway works. Jelly on a tree.
¶ 6:40 AM 
Yaaaay! Not quite the Rapture, but good enough for today.
Finally solved a strange problem in HTML/JS/SVG. I'd been using an 'object' tag to contain a switchable piece of code, so the courseware could turn pages. This worked about 60% of the time, in a completely irregular way. I couldn't tell which pages were 'good' and 'bad' because the sequence was never the same. Start up once, and get pages 1,2,3. Start up again and get pages 1,5,11.
Most of the online forums seemed to recommend 'object' for this usage, so I left it in place way too long. It turns out that 'iframe' works perfectly here and 'object' sort of halfway works. Jelly on a tree.
¶ 6:40 AM
