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1. David:

   Wow, I was *this close* to sending you, Dunstan, some ideas about your Safari CSS issue (downloading all div#scene bg images) when this post "cropped up." :) So add a Python script as number four:

   1) you can add an event handler to your .htaccess file to parse css files (or another extension, such as ".cssp" so the server doesn't parse all of your css files):

   AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .cssp

   then add a function to your "night.cssp" file to write a single background image to div#scene rather than 86 class declarations.

   The tip about the .htaccess handler came from this posting to [thelist] by Andy Warwick:
   http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20020520/112928.html

   A reply to Andy's message implied that no handler was necessary; just have PHP output CSS declarations, but I've tried this (using @import) and my server would not parse the CSS (.php) file:
   http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20020520/112965.html

   2) Session variable. I see you already use this feature. Would this avoid re-querying of the weather data?

   3) Use PHP to write the style declaration on each page.

   Hope these are helpful.

   Posted 26 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Dunstan, ↓ Chris Neale

2. DarkBlue:

   His website looks remarkably similar to yours too. Imitation is the sincerist form of plagiarism eh?

   Posted 1 hour, 42 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Dunstan

3. Dunstan:

   Oh, I don't think so - I certainly didn't think they looked too much alike.

   Sure the layout is similar, but there's only so many layouts you can have.

   Posted 1 hour, 56 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ DarkBlue

4. Dunstan:

   David, thanks for your comment - some responses:

   [1] I like the sound of that a lot. I'll check it out, thank you.

   [2] I could use a session variable you're right... I haven't up to now because I wanted people to get 'real-time' weather, not just the weather at the point they first arrived. I'll have to think about this.

   [3] I've not used this method because I only want browsers who are @importing CSS to get the header graphic. Writing it into each page using CSS will mess that up.

   [4] Python - haven't a clue about it :op

   Thanks for the ideas, I'll let you know how I get on with [1] :o)

   Posted 2 hours, 11 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ David

5. Lee:

   Now that is fantastic, obviously Dunst gets immense credit for his, but my scientific bent is currently curling it's toes with joy at that Dutch guys header.

   I think this could be the wave of the future - real time, real world interaction. Kinda reminds me of the days when you could send messages to the Netscape board above the dev team and view them via web cam.

   Posted 2 hours, 23 minutes after the fact

6. Chris Vincent:

   Whoa... It's amazing what one guy's idea can inspire in others. Too bad you wouldn't know what that header was sans explanation. Still really cool though...

   Posted 3 hours, 7 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Roberto

7. Roberto:

   Chris: thanks for the comment. I've added some Javascript to the page. Now if you hover your mouse for half a second over the image a link leading to the explanation appears.

   Posted 17 hours, 51 minutes after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Chris Vincent

8. Sans:

   Well of course now that you've set the standard for cool headers, you have to up the ante. Perhaps wireless GPRS trackers on your sheep so that their position in the header mimics that of their real counterparts? Or perhaps your could get that info from hourly satellite photography?

   I'm not sure what kind of sheep/herder privacy issues that may violate though...

   Posted 23 hours, 40 minutes after the fact

   Inspired: ↓ Dris

9. Dris:

   Haha... Nice one.

   I actually have an idea of my own, but I don't know where to get feeds for presidential polls...

   Yes, I have malcontent.

   Posted 1 day, 5 hours after the fact

   Inspired by: ↑ Sans

10. Chris Neale:

    you don't use php to parse .css

    you have a .php file with css declarations, and a header();

    e.g.

    <?php

    header('Content-type: text/css');

    ?>

    a {
    }

    body {
    declaration: <?php echo $value; ?>;
    }

    ---

    or whatever

    Posted 1 day, 7 hours after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ David

    Inspired: ↓ David

11. David:

    I've been wondering about that for some time now. Dunstan, I should have prefaced my comments with a sentence about my lack of expertise in PHP! Thanks for the enlightenment, Chris.

    Posted 4 days, 22 hours after the fact

    Inspired by: ↑ Chris Neale

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