JavaScript

As a way to learn some ColdFusion basics, in 2003 I decided to implement a project I had been meaning to do for a long time in PHP: A central Bookmark manager. I never envisioned some of the social possibilities that del.icio.us has implemented since, but I was thinking along those lines.

While any web browser worth its salt has a feature for saving favorite URLs, users of more than one computer or browser (Mozilla, MSIE, Lynx, Opera, Home, work, laptop, etc) often find themselves with several different bookmark lists, each one out of sync.

In 1998 I became a docent at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Ennis house (called the Ennis-Brown house at the time) in Los Angeles, California. Apart from helping with tours of the house, I was responsible for building the first web site for the house. I was honored to have the opportunity to design a web site for a Frank Lloyd Wright structure, and I wanted to incorporate as many elements of the house’s style into the web site as I could, hence the extensive use of varied concrete block graphics. (The entire house is constructed of patterned concrete blocks.)

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Due to the extensive use of Macromedia Flash, complex table layout, and Cascading Style Sheets on the Stanlee.net web site, I was asked to create a JavaScript "Sniffer" script that would detect several key pieces of information: Browser Name (Netscape, Internet Explorer), Browser Version, and whether or not the Flash plugin was installed.

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