About the Site
Written by Darrick Wong, this site opened in 1996. At the time, it really
looked like a silly teenager's site, complete with animated GIFs and rampant
abuse of graphics. You can see it in the Exhibits section under Darrick's Original Site. It has progressed over the years to become what you see
today. Speaking of which...
Darrick's Domicile is...
- A blog.
- A photo album.
- A collection of various computer
programs.
- A home for crazy odds and ends.
- A landing pad for old projects
that aren't kept up.
- XML and XSL powered! See
(broken)
for details.
- Java 2 happy.
Darrick's Domicile used to have...
- Drop-down DHTML menus. They were slick...and they generally
didn't work that well. Eventually they were replaced by PHP
scripts, and now by the XML content managements system you see
right now.
- A PHP library to handle the HTTP/1.1 protocol and provide a
standard page look and feel. This was EOL'd due to PHP bugs
and a general reluctance to use PHP for what ought to be static
pages.
- A big table of working browsers. Now, I write XHTML 1.1 compliant
code and let the browsers sort things out. Usually they do a
decent job.
