Well, someone asked what happened to the lab. So I found it. The lab was a place for me to design the tricks I was going to use for JEBHP 10, where I built the stylesheets, tweaked the JavaScript, created the colorsets, and in general looked at what what looked like. I tried to track how each thing I did worked in each browser I tested, and I made a lot of decisions based on that.
One of the most important things in The Lab is getting the finished product out for the world to see. In JEBHP 9 and earlier, I had links like this in Useful Stuff; here, The Lab is the place for them. The list on the left is for my old ISP, AT&T Worldnet Service, the list in the middle is for AT&T Broadband Internet, and the list on the right is for Comcast High-Speed Internet.
The thing that I referred to The Lab for most was my Color Chart. As I state in my FAQ, one of the tenets of accessibility JEBHP 10 subscribes to is to restrict color choices to the so-called 216 "web-safe" colors. The idea behind that is that every color in JEBHP 10 should be able to be rendered on a 256-color display without dithering, creating uniformity across machines. Additionally, it prevents a problem I have had with some sites, where even on the same machine and the same monitor, the same web page looks like it uses completely different colors in three different browsers. In order to safe space, the colors listed below are in short-hex notation; the full hex code simply doubles each character. For example, the color listed as F69 would normally be written in a style as #FF6699.
000 | 003 | 006 | 009 | 00C | 00F | 030 | 033 | 036 | 039 | 03C | 03F | 060 | 063 | 066 | 069 | 06C | 06F |
300 | 303 | 306 | 309 | 30C | 30F | 330 | 333 | 336 | 339 | 33C | 33F | 360 | 363 | 366 | 369 | 36C | 36F |
600 | 603 | 606 | 609 | 60C | 60F | 630 | 633 | 636 | 639 | 63C | 63F | 660 | 663 | 666 | 669 | 66C | 66F |
900 | 903 | 906 | 909 | 90C | 90F | 930 | 933 | 936 | 939 | 93C | 93F | 960 | 963 | 966 | 969 | 96C | 96F |
C00 | C03 | C06 | C09 | C0C | C0F | C30 | C33 | C36 | C39 | C3C | C3F | C60 | C63 | C66 | C69 | C6C | C6F |
F00 | F03 | F06 | F09 | F0C | F0F | F30 | F33 | F36 | F39 | F3C | F3F | F60 | F63 | F66 | F69 | F6C | F6F |
090 | 093 | 096 | 099 | 09C | 09F | 0C0 | 0C3 | 0C6 | 0C9 | 0CC | 0CF | 0F0 | 0F3 | 0F6 | 0F9 | 0FC | 0FF |
390 | 393 | 396 | 399 | 39C | 39F | 3C0 | 3C3 | 3C6 | 3C9 | 3CC | 3CF | 3F0 | 3F3 | 3F6 | 3F9 | 3FC | 3FF |
690 | 693 | 696 | 699 | 69C | 69F | 6C0 | 6C3 | 6C6 | 6C9 | 6CC | 6CF | 6F0 | 6F3 | 6F6 | 6F9 | 6FC | 6FF |
990 | 993 | 996 | 999 | 99C | 99F | 9C0 | 9C3 | 9C6 | 9C9 | 9CC | 9CF | 9F0 | 9F3 | 9F6 | 9F9 | 9FC | 9FF |
C90 | C93 | C96 | C99 | C9C | C9F | CC0 | CC3 | CC6 | CC9 | CCC | CCF | CF0 | CF3 | CF6 | CF9 | CFC | CFF |
F90 | F93 | F96 | F99 | F9C | F9F | FC0 | FC3 | FC6 | FC9 | FCC | FCF | FF0 | FF3 | FF6 | FF9 | FFC | FFF |
Another use for The Lab was an area to check the behavior of my stylesheets. I have one standard
stylesheet that I use across all my pages in JEBHP 10, which defines such things as header display,
normal font choices, use of <code>
tags, and indents and margins on paragraphs.
The stylesheet also removes the color differentiation for clicked-on links, since it drives me batty.
But sometimes I forget what an H4 Special header looks like. Also, it was important to show how the
headers and normal text, as well as visited and unvisited links, would look in each of my colorsets.
So I developed an area to test just that.
This is a paragraph with no special formatting.
This is another boring paragraph.
This is yet another boring paragraph.
The only other things I developed in The Lab were some JavaScript things, some of which were incorporated into the header of this page, and things like my FormGrader function, which is pretty useless by itself. At some point I'll have to put up the old Quiz Generator in an appropriate place. For now, that's all for The Lab.