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This web site was established ca. 01 December 1996. The site map[fn.7a] was produced with Web Hotspots 2.0. All other HTML, SGML, XML (etc.) on this site hand-coded, using (freeware) Notepad+ for Windows 95/NT. Digital photos produced with Olympus D-300L digital camera.

I coded many of the pages before I knew about SGML, or that HTML is an SGML application, and that things like <b> and <i> elements are containers, so that a sequence such as:

normal <b>bold only <i>bold+italic</b> italic only</i> normal

is syntactically wrong, because the containers overlap and thus improperly nest. (See example pages which, in my ignorance, I coded sloppily.) Because the most popular web browser, Internet Explorer, displays such material as desired: "normal bold only bold+italic italic only normal", there is often little incentive to make the HTML be structurally correct. This gives HTML a reputation for being "sloppy", "formless", "anything goes", etc.

What's right?

normal <b>bold only <i>bold+italic</i></b> <i>italic only</i> normal

is syntactically correct, because the italic+bold text is in an italic container inside a bold container, and the italic-only text is in its own distinct container.

In May 1998, I reworked many of my pages to be HTML 3.2 conformant. [Read W3C HTML 3.2 announcement letter (07 May 1996): Click here!] In other pages, however, I wished to retain tagging which is not part of the HTML 3.2 standard: especially, bgcolor attribute in <td> elements, to add color. I was able to validate these remaining pages as "transitional" HTML 4.0. [Note 08Aug01: I have now validated most of the pages on this site with a second HTML validator, from Web Design Group, so that this site is double validated.] I also subject the entire website to my own further standards of normation (see, e.g., Perl script: titles.pl). I think I can with some warrant apply to this website the old Revox tape recorder company advertising slogan:

It's built like a brick shipyard

Please see my web design criteria page, for more thoughts about how to make HTML pages that both conform to standards and also are attractive.

Note: the graphics on this website definitely are not professional quality. I have cobbled them together with primitive means. I ask you to judge them accordingly, and try to see what these pages are trying to be if I could devote my prime time to working on them and bring appropriate resources to bear.

I also have a Curta mechanical calculator (check out my Curta page!).

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http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/workspace.html Copyright © 1998-2002 Brad McCormick, Ed.D. bradmcc@cloud9.net 25 April 2008CE (2008-04-25 ISO 8601) v03.04	My PDA/attaché case substitute: A police forms carrier.

11 September 2002.

he material below is no longer current. It is from the time when I worked on this website from a single computer (the G6-200), and I had my "canonical" source files, and all my backups stored there. (See picture of my workspace, Above) I started working on this website at a time when I worked at home for my paying job, so that my home computer was "home" to my paid business employment computer files as well as my personal website source files. (I early came to appreciate the virtues of "relative links"!) Throughout each day, something I was doing for work would suggest something to do with my personal website, and vice-versa. So what is below here on this web page largely reports things no longer current.

Today, my connection with a particular computer is attenuated. My website has become more like a "floating world" which I can install on any Windows computer in perhaps an hour (to make the necessary adaptations to make it at home on a UNIX machine would take a little effort, mostly due to the difference in text-file line end character sequences).

With the demise of SGML, some of the programs listed below are no longer highly relevant (if they still exist at all, esp. OMNIMARK LE). Most of the SGML pages on this site are now "frozen", since I don't have the tools or remember how to change them, and nobody would look at them any more anyway. (I had hoped SGML on the Web, led by Yuri Rubinsky's Panorma SGML browser plugin, would flourish, but that did not happen.) Since my job no longer requires me to make an institutional website work with a variety of web browsers, I no longer "collect" new browser releases....

Best wishes! I'd like to hear what you're up to!

Until 25 Dec 02, the following paragraph and image were on my Home page:

Established December 1996, this page has been accessed nnn times (mostly, most likely, by its author, in developing this website, and by search-engine, mass-marketing and other webbots indexing and/or mining it...). Of currently popular web browsers, this site best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5+ or Netscape 4.7+.[fn.13] As of 29Mar03, I am using and recommend: Mozilla 1.3.0. As of 27Nov04, I am using and recommend Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (browser) and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (email program).

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