xFenster Demo 1

Status

13Mar2011 - Some improvements. You may need to refresh the page to get the latest changes.
12Mar2011 - Testing xFenster rev 21 with demo 4.

Intro

This demo illustrates...

  • Creating fensters from static and dynamic DIVs.
  • Fixed fensters that do not scroll with the page.
  • Different border styles.
  • Fensters with and without status bars and disabled resize.
  • Disabling the min/max/close buttons.
  • Updating the status bar every second (xf1).

Code & Docs

xFenster rev 21 - view source code, documentation, revision history and more.

The "all" Methods

paintAll(), showAll(), hideAll(), minimizeAll(), maximizeAll(), restoreAll()

Demos

  • Demo 1 - fixed fensters from DIVs
  • Demo 2 - absolute fensters from IFRAMEs
  • Demo 3 - absolute fensters from DIVs, in a fence
  • Demo 4 - with a "control menu"

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33Across

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"I do not make old flutes; I make new ones. My work is, however, traditional in the sense that the instruments are based on traditional tribal tunings, and are constructed using traditional techniques. I believe that the idea of "traditional" is much misunderstood. Even in the "old days" traditions were dynamic institutions in a constant state of evolution. My work is grounded in traditions, but represents a contemporary rebirth of a nearly-lost art. I call my instruments "Contemporary Native American Flutes". They represent my contribution to an ancient, but ongoing tradition."

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Declaration of Independence

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776,

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united STATES of AMERICA,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. ...

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Kepler's Lament

Yet, alas, of what great goods do miserable mortals despoil one another, by their shameful itching for quarrels. How profound an ignorance of their fate overwhelms them, as they have deserved. With what deplorable perverseness do we rush into the midst of the flames, in fleeing from the fire," he [Kepler] wrote in 1621, three years after the eruption of the Thirty Years War.

Would that even now indeed, there may still, after the reversal of Austrian affairs which followed, be a place for Plato's oracular saying. For when Greece was on fire on all sides with a long civil war, and was troubled with all the evils which usually accompany civil war, he was consulted about a Delian Riddle, and was seeking a pretext for suggesting salutary advice to the peoples. At length he replied that, according to Apollo's opinion Greece would be peaceful if the Greeks turned to geometry and other philosophical studies, as these studies would lead their spirits from ambition and other forms of greed, out of which wars and other evils arise, to the love of peace and to moderation in all things.

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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Ant Macros for X

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