Re: rattlers - another simple animated typogram for Web browser status bar

In article <382...@iNOdirect.ca> 
  dated Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:51:14 GMT,
  llizard <lli...@iNOdirect.ca> wrote:
 
>              '\
>              ' \    ,^%---
>              ;  \@  >  \ eeeek!! I had no idea that
>                  `\/>               that fish was a piranha!
>                   __>,^   *    *    Good thing it got away.
>                 /\| |   (/   )/   
>      -~-~-~-~"""""""ejm"""""""  
> 
> I think I won't be fishing any more....

But, I once had a piranha in an aquarium.  :-<=>

> I just assumed that  I wouldn't be able to see the colour version.  I
> surf the net using the antiquated Netscape Navigator 3.04. But I just
> gave it a shot (you're not kidding when you say that it takes a while
> to load) and it's very cool!!! Is the black background supposed to be
> there all the time?  It kept disappearing and would only fill in if a
> fish swam through. And every time I scrolled, I lost the black except
> where a fish was swimming.

The presentation applet  is a work in progress.   I am still working on
ways  to  efficiently refresh  the screen.   If  your  screen  with the
browser  opened to full-screen cannot show the whole  animation so that
you do not have to scroll, I can add a second link to the aquarium page
to use  a smaller font size in the  display.  Though you will lose some
detail and it won't speed up the download, as long as you don't overlay
the browser window  with  another window or scroll it off while you are
running the animation, the background will remain intact.

Check out the 'spinWeb' animation link that I posted recently.  It uses 
a reduced fontsize  with the same applet,  repeats the  animation,  and 
you should have no problems viewing it with your setup. 

> I tried looking at it in Opera3.60 but Opera crashed.

I use NetScape 3.0 running the  ancient  JDK 1.0.2  to develop and view
which is why you were able to view it.  I avoid the latest versions and
try  to   develop  tools   for  the  broadest   range  of  users--    a
characteristic common to ASCII artists, I believe.  ;-D

JDK 1.0.2  is the  same as  Opera, I  think, so I don't know  why Opera
crashes.

> I also looked at it in MSIE3  (hahahahahaha for no good reason, we're
> VERY reluctant  to move past version 3s) and it  looked the same with
> the black background disappearing  and filling in as a fish or bubble
> moved by. MSIE3 was much happier dealing with the  Java than Netscape
> was although  the applet suddenly and inexplicably stopped. (Is it on
> a time limit?)

The animation stops  because it reached  the end of the 42K  compressed
file it  downloaded.   The Java  applet is  not actually generating the
animation, it is playing a clip of a  file generated,  in this case, by
the ASCII Aquarium Perl  script which I have used in the past as a sort
of poor-man's screensaver.   Hopefully, when  I finish with the applet,
you will be able  to use it to run  and display on a Web page  *any* of
the many old VT100/ANSI animation .vt or .ans files archived around the
Internet.  That is my objective.

> But back to the  status  bar  animation.  If I  alter  the  one  line 
> aquarium to have different creatures (not fish)  and put it  on a web 
> page, would that be all right? On the body of the page, I would put: 
> 
> Tiny Javascript animation by R L Samuell
> 
>              ha
>        ,^^%--- ha
>        <_  \ ha
>        />\
>       / >       Please look at the status bar!
>        /|^^
> ejm   |  \
> 
> and then I would have  the following prominently displayed (with your 
> URL in a link)
> 
> Status bar  animation  [http://samuell.lex.bluegrass.net/"] copyright 
> (c) R L Samuell[/a]
> 
> If you have reservations about this,  I could e-mail  you the URL and 
> you  could look  at it  and the  source code to  approve it  (or not) 
> before I announced it to the newsgroup.

Looking  at your site,  you seem to be *very* sensitive  to  creditting
issues as am I.  But to  avoid  any misunderstandings, just email me at
god...@bellsouth.net the  URL  when you  get things ready so I can see
what you have  in mind.  For one  thing,  I  will  want  to give  you a
special copyright link instead of the above.  Also, I  may want to make
a suggestion or two  about how to credit you  for  the  changes  in the
script itself.

Regards,


R L Samuell
--
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     Email: http://samuell.lex.bluegrass.net/mailto/typogrammer
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