I just discovered your FReeper sandbox post of a few months ago. It's excellent. And as an aspiring HTML/CSS/JS geek, I can appreciate the work that went into this post.
But is our passion for meticulous detail, easy-to-follow text/images, and coding efficiency a waste of time? Shouldn't we be doing crossword puzzles or smacking white golf balls down the fairway instead? Well, here's what Emerson had to say:
- Heed thy private dream: you will not be missed in the scorning and skepticism Stay there in thy closet, and toil, until the rest are agreed what to do about it
Your sickness, they say, and your puny habit, require that you do this or avoid that, but know that thy life is a flitting state, a tent for a night, and do thou, sick or well, finish that stint
You are sick, but shalt not be worse, and the universe, which holds thee dear, shall be the better
When I first joined FR in 2015, I thought having to revert to an older version of HTML was limiting But I soon realized Jim Robinson and Co are smart cookies. Cyber criminals are very attracted to "open architecture" stuff because it's relatively insecure and criminals choose the easiest paths to stealing money and breaking things So with older HTML code, FR is a much small target for their fraud.
While my HTML coding on FR doesn't rise to the level of artistic as some FReepers have achieved, at least I learned how to code stories that are more magazine-like in appearance My vanities are posted at freeper.org Click on "Vanities" at the top to some HTML examples such as Trump the Diplomat, Mark Twain, and Trump International Chicago.
One trick I discovered a couple years back fits into the "HTML Sandbox" category
Rather than go through the work of creating a custom GIF image from scratch, you can create a similar effect inside a HTML table by combining a transparent foreground image with a background animated GIF. I have supplied the code below you can copy with step-by-step instructions Here it is:
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And here's the code. Copy this entire section below and drop into your HTML coding software. I use Notepad++.
<!-- The Eagle Struck -- Overlapping Transparent Image with Animated Background -->
<table width=700 height=270 cellspacing=10 bgcolor=black>
<!-- Table row with a black background -->
<tr bgcolor=black>
<!-- Left table cell <td> contains the fireworks GIF image as a background -->
<td align=left valign=bottom width=600px background="http://freeper.org/fr/clips/coloful-fireworks-animated-gif-image-6.gif">
<!-- The Trump/eagle foreground image -->
<img width=200 src="http://freeper.org/fr/clips/trump_eagle.gif"/>
</td>
<!-- Right side table cell where you insert your text -->
<td>
<center>
<b valign=middle><font color=white face=Arial size=6>The Eagle Struck!</font></b>
</center>
</td>
</tr> <!-- close the table's Row -->
</table>
