SRD 3.5 Competition

[kreynolds]

Any self-respecting professional web developer makes their product accessible by as many people as possible and therefore would never limit their audience by developing for a specific browser.

Note that I said I code for IE 5.0. Now, note what I didn't say; I didn't say I code for browser specific features (such as jscript). If a browser can't handle standard code, it isn't my problem. Now, with that said, I'll go ahead and assume you weren't trying to say that I have no respect for my self or my talents and just leave it at that.

 

[kreynolds]

BOT (more or less), does anyone else have any ideas for a color scheme? I'm getting the feeling that a lot of folks like a combo of red and gold, and some like a little rust thrown into that. Any others? I thought of a snake-skin/black leather one the other night, but figured that might be a bit too much.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Who gives a rat ass anyway what anybody programs it for.

This is a competition. If I want to submit something that only works on a Commodore 64, all the more power to me, however I don't think I'll win that way.

 

[kreynolds]

Who gives a rat ass anyway what anybody programs it for.

I don't. If it works, it works. I just think we can all leave the crap-attitude to the side. This is supposed to be a fun little competition, so let's keep it fun, ya' know?

 

[Cergorach]

okay and you might have some special thing but as far as I know cgi, php, asp, jsp all output html which is what the browser actually renders. As far as the brwoser is concerned that is just an html page, it's the server that sees it as something different. So you should still be concerned with this as your programs should be outputting xhtml and not html.

true, but by using php, a lot of the html work can be avoided. You make a template for a page, it's still rendered in html, but all the annoying e of html is often only once needed. Gack! maybe i just expressed myself badly. As for Xhtml, i currently don't care. It was the same with CSS 1.0 and 2.0, i used CSS 1.0 before any browser supported it fully (NS supported some features, IE some other). I knew CSS 2.0 from the moment it was talked about, but before any standard was written in stone. What all this investment in time net me? Very little, it was always a huge struggle to make pages both NS and IE compatible, now it's even unclearer which browser supports what and how. No thank you, i'll get into xhtml when a large percentage of the browsers used by survers will understand it...

It's fun to be at the cutting edge of web development, but it's frustrating if you can't use it.

 

[Drawmack]

This is a competition. If I want to submit something that only works on a Commodore 64, all the more power to me, however I don't think I'll win that way.

That depends: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/FRMain.html

 

[Elvinis75]

Okay first let me say that I’m totally jazzed that you willing programmers are working hard at bringing this SRD PDF to a better standard.

Second let me say that some of the thoughts that is rolling around in here are distrubing at best. Having had experience in doing some free programming work I would like to say that pushing people to walk through hoops when they are doing something for free is a good way to leave them disenchanted. Saying that total compatabilities has anything to do with self-respect is ludicris. Any person giving up their free time to help some people out is great person period. Saying that he has to help out nearly everyone to have any self-respect is just plain crazy. So I guess that what I’m saying is that it is rather unfair to judge a persons free work by the standards of that of a paid professional. If a person ends up asking for money out of this then I’m going to pass on it but if I wasn’t I would expect more. By the same token if they are going to offer it to me for free I’m going to accept that it is going to be using the most common standard out there. Like most reasonable people I accept that freeware is just that free. Not the work output of a paid professional. I for one am fine with the > 90% approach. Keep up the good work all.

 

[Dimwhit]

This is a competition. If I want to submit something that only works on a Commodore 64, all the more power to me, however I don't think I'll win that way.

I'd almost give you the grand prize if you could pull that off! Too bad I don't have a Commodore 64 to test it on.

 

[Drawmack]

i'll get into xhtml when a large percentage of the browsers used by survers will understand it...

It's fun to be at the cutting edge of web development, but it's frustrating if you can't use it.

Maybe you should surf over to w3c and do a bit of research before you make statements that make it clear to people who know what they are talking about that you do not.

xhtml is an xml implementation of html. So any browser that understands xml/xsl understands it already. Then the files are all stored on the w3c servers. So it comes out compliant more efficiently and easily the html which is why html has been depricated.

 

[Cergorach]

Who gives a rat ass anyway what anybody programs it for.

This is a competition. If I want to submit something that only works on a Commodore 64, all the more power to me, however I don't think I'll win that way.

Oh... How about doing one for a vic20 ;-) Or MSX...

I had to chuckle, i just imagined distributing tapes wich would be labeled with a SRD v.3.5 label and the monster section would be at position 325...