proposed new tag: IMG
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800

I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:

IMG

Required argument is SRC=”url”.

This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull over the network and interpret as an image, to be embedded in the text at the point of the tag’s occurrence.

An example is:

(IMG SRC=”file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.xbm”\)

(There is no closing tag; this is just a standalone tag.)

This tag can be embedded in an anchor like anything else; when that happens, it becomes an icon that’s sensitive to activation just like a regular text anchor.

Browsers should be afforded flexibility as to which image formats they support. Xbm and Xpm are good ones to support, for example. If a browser cannot interpret a given format, it can do whatever it wants
instead (X Mosaic will pop up a default bitmap as a placeholder).

This is required functionality for X Mosaic; we have this working, and we’ll at least be using it internally. I’m certainly open to suggestions as to how this should be handled within HTML; if you have
a better idea than what I’m presenting now, please let me know. I know this is hazy wrt image format, but I don’t see an alternative than to just say “let the browser do what it can” and wait for the
perfect solution to come along (MIME, someday, maybe).

Let me know what you think………

Cheers,
Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

via: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html

Well Marc, I think they agree :-)

The first keynote by Kristina Hook was really interesting. Basically she and her team are taking affective computing to another level. I would almost say, that she de facto is investigating “pathos” appeals in technology (mobile, tablet and gamings systems). I really liked her presentation.

Standford has made a super cool presentation on Facebook and is thus taking the lead in the sense of new learnings. B.J. Fogg and Daisuke Lizawa had a great paper on differences in types of interaction in Japanese social networks versus Facebook/western social spaces.

Brian Cugelman made a nice presentation on website credibility:

I had my own session on the persuasive design of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) and I had both positive and negative feedback.

Also really interesting at the persuasive is the short paper sessions. This year short papers are presented for 10 minutes in clusters of three and then a short discussion. This is a great format, since you get a lot of short pitches

For instance Evan Rosenfeld had a good session entitled: “How to build persuasive web applications: Three fundamental feedback loops”

Again we got some some nice practical design patterns from Stanford. It seems that they have undertaken the task to actually map out all persuasive interaction design patterns that they can find. This will be very useful in taking Persuasive Technology Design to the next level – enabling us to prescribe design.

Below professor B.J. Fogg and Julie Leth:

Day 1 will close with a closed with a panel where I will be participating.

Overall a lot of interesting viewpoints emerged on day 1 and it was evident that there is still plenty of issues to be discussed in regards to the future of rhetoric and persuasion.

More on this tomorrow – where I will use a better compression for the pictures ;-)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Wonderful

Ohh and this:

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=)

Yes, its about the fabric of the internet.

via: http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/

Its great @ ask500people.com you can *erhm* ask 500 people…

It’s simply brilliant.

Examples of things people asked:

Do you think you’ve ever had food poisoning from eating at an Olive Garden (restaurant chain)?

Do you hear more than one language when you walk around where you live?

Would you agree to give up an organ or limb for $100,000 ?

And lots more – It’s great fun to watch too

Remember back when games were real games? Back in the day when everything was jumping from platform to platform? When a solid jump-kick to the stomach of a fat green sumo would bring joy in the brains of little kids? Back when plainly stating “I have a C64 with a 1541 Floppy disk drive” would make (well some) people listen?

Back when a hero was made of boxy over sized pixels? Back when every game color palette was so insane, that you didn’t even notice how insane they were? Back when Migrane-Mint and Hell-Flesh-Pink were common base colors?. Well get ready for a blast from the past! BRUCE LEE!

Take a look at these wonder full screen shots:

My google desktop just popped up a zip file I had long forgot about (and it was hiding on the old stuff drive): Mark Rosten’s version of a Commodore 64 Bruce Lee stand alone port (Click to Download).

In 2001 Mark Rosten was thinking about learning the Blitz programming language and he remade the first computer game that I completed: Commodore 64 Bruce Lee.

I clearly remember feeling sad and empty the day I actually completed the game. I remember banging my tiny hard as titanium-alloy fists into the keyboard! Ahh these were the days where you could not even save games – it was do or die – Aces High!

Enjoy! it here at Protos.dk or via: Mark Rostens site.

From the original release notes by Mark:

Program: Bruce Lee – A remake for the PC
Type: Platform game
Written: August 2001
By: Mark Rosten
Using: Blitz Basic
Version: 1.12 (full release)
Build date: 6th October 2001

Game background
—————
To learn how to use Blitz Basic, rather than create a whole new game from scratch. I needed a game I both loved and was familiar with. A remake was in order…

Thinking back to my humble gaming origins, no game brings back such fond memories as Bruce Lee on the Commodore 64. I’m not sure what it was about this game that I loved so much, was it the simplicity of the gameplay? The awesome graphics and sound? (They weren’t that bad when this game was released, believe me.) Or the
simultaneous 2-player mode with the unforgettable Yamo?

…

Thanks Buddy, let me know if you come to Copenhagen and ill buy you a beer!

Edit: 100 C-64 Games in 10 minuttes