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O'Reilly Network: Hierarchical Menus with the Underrated style.display Object [Feb. 22, 2002]
My latest article is up ... take a read and let me know what you think.

" One of the most common DHTML requests I get is for a Windows Explorer-style hierarchical menu, where there's a list of topics or "folders" that a user can click on to reveal subtopics, or "files," within that folder. It's a common desktop metaphor that seems ever more necessary on the Web, especially as we see navigation bars incorporating larger and more complex content while still trying to fit on the screen. Hierarchical menus are a solution to the common problem of having too many links in too small a space."

posted by creon @ 12:15:55 PM

Click Here to Download the Internet! (yes, it's a joke)

posted by creon @ 1:48:49 PM

I've implemented a new DHTML menu along the left. If you're using Netscape 4, well, this page will look absolutely horrible now, but I, personally, feel no qualms. If you haven't already, upgrade to Mozilla, the next-generation browser aimed at developers, or Netscape 6.2, which is now very stable and very friendly. If you're still using Netscape 4.xx after 5 years of release, and 1.5 years of a new release available, that's your own damn fault now. It doesn't support one CSS object that I really like ("style.display"), but I'm using it on my personal site anyway.

So grab a newer browser, dammit!

posted by creon @ 4:19:15 PM

Yahoo! News - 240-to-189 Vote Caps Seven-Year Effort to Ban Soft Money
Finally, a bill has passed both the Senate and the House for campaign finance reform; the story of of this battle is incredible, even in the last two days as frantic blocking measures and threats of filibusters were hurled from the political swine too accustomed to feeding from the corporate trough to give it up without complete and utter self-humiliation.

" In one late-night switch, Representative Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican who had planned to put forward a limit on soft money but not an outright ban, instead sponsored a Shays-Meehan bill from a few years ago. That measure took a more absolute stand against soft money than the current version.

" Mr. Ney admitted he opposed the bill he was sponsoring but said he was trying to hold his opponents ``accountable'' and show that their legislation was not as pure as it once had been. Denying that his intent was to kill the Shays-Meehan bill, he said, ``Purity and honesty today is what we are all about.''

" Supporters of the bill said the Republican tactics showed their failure. ``Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue,'' said Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. ``Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate it is an implicit concession that they have lost the fight.'' "

posted by creon @ 11:13:26 AM

The Miniature Earth
An incredible work of scale, capturing the state of all world's peoples in about 4 minutes. Watch it several times, then do something.
[warning: requires Flash]

posted by creon @ 12:55:04 PM