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

In article <1999.315.60938.737@205.198.93.196>,
see_URL_in.sig@end.to_mail_to.us (R L Samuell) wrote:
> 
> In article <382...@iNOdirect.ca>
>   dated Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:02:18 GMT,
>   llizard <lli...@iNOdirect.ca> wrote:
> 
> > In article <1999.314.65692.262@205.198.93.196>,
> > see_URL_in.sig@end.to_mail_to.us (R L Samuell wrote:
> 
> > >   http://samuell.lex.bluegrass.net/Software/aquarium.shtml
> 
> > hahahahaha!! I just looked at your status bar Javascript animations!
> > Wonderful! Especially since it is in SUCH a confined space! I will
> > definitely have to examine the source code to see how it's done!
> 
> Thank you.
[snip]
> >             '  \    ,^%---
> >           '     \@  >  \     I particularly like
> >         '        `\/>        the fish.
[snip]
> Did you play the color clip of the full-screen version of the aquarium?
> 
> Unfortunately, it takes several minutes to load even with the compressed
> file so please be patient.  (An equipment upgrade is in the works.)
> 
> >            '\
> >            ' \    ,^%---
> >            A  \@  >  \ Look! I caught one!
> >            ^   `\/>  
[snip]
> But, if you were I, in the next frame you'd see:
> 
> 
>          ?        ;~&      Oops! Oh, well, ...
>         '  _____@  >'.     back to the aquarium!!!
>          ''     `\/> '
>                  _< ,^   *    *
>        \v/     /||X|   (/   )/
>     -~-~.~-~"""""""""*""""""""""*""""""""""
>    ~-~-~.~""""""ejm+rl3s"""""*"""")/""""
.
             '\
             ' \    ,^%---
             ;  \@  >  \ 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....

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.

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

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.

-llizard



NOTE: I rarely pick up my mail from the idirect address. If you
are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent";
its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
--
       ___       llizard aka ejm   cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca
     _/   |    ,^%---                   
    |_____|  __<_ \  I'd put the aquarium on my page if  I
      --- ==   >/    wasn't afraid of the fish.
    [_____]  __>,^
  ejm|   |  //| |         http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/

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