Comments on: Elsewhere: William Flake’s “Of Squirrels and Men”

By: Kyle Weems

Kyle Weems — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:57:26 +0000

@Michael – Re: the CAPTCHA. The new version uses a single image, but ups the challenge by requiring the user to recognize the image and match it with the proper word to write in the box (rather than clicking on a given box, which even a robot can get right 33% of the time).

By: David

David — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:01:05 +0000

@William – well not quite equally well. It doesn’t work on my browser : Opera. “mouseenter” is only in the draft state.

By: Michael Kozakewich

Michael Kozakewich — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:56:27 +0000

Oh, beautiful! There was a pervading feeling in the old version that one was limited to looking through a window — I could go one way or another to see a slightly different view, but that was all.
Now I can scroll forever. That jump was horrid.

(Also, you said a little while ago that your captcha is broken. Is it always showing the robot? That’s all I’ve seen, lately.)

By: William Flake

William Flake — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:45:22 +0000

@David – Actually, no reason at all. I’ve not had much experience with client-side scripting, and ‘mouseenter’ was the result of my searching for a property that allowed me to record the position of mouse entry. After some brief testing, it looks like ‘mouseover’ works equally well.

By: David

David — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:44:52 +0000

Is there a reason why to use the working draft ‘mouseenter’ instead of the recommended ‘mouseover’ ?

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:10:40 +0000

Nice – I always hated your header for the very reason of the ‘jump’. Much nicer now! :)

By: Bill Woodland

Bill Woodland — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:33:00 +0000

Very nice work, Mr Flake. At first, I didn’t see any difference, but after I cleared my cache, it worked flawlessly. As I moved my cursor from left to right, just below the trees, I also moved it up into the trees and back out several times. No jerks allowed!