So last weekend was somewhat unproductive for me. Well, unproductive on the relaxing front. I started doing some experiments on my Mac with XSL transformations and discovering my webspace on Shaw.
In my D&D campaign, I keep all the information about it in one big XML file. When I want to generate the information each player would know, I run an XSL transformation on it to generate a large HTML file that gives all the info. I’ve been using a adequate application to do these transformation. But I finally figured out how to run Saxon on my Mac, and so I started doing lots of updating. I can now generate an entire web site for each of my players.
Then one thing led to another and I started more experiments with CSS. Now I’m trying to make the pages look good. I’ve found that Internet Explorer is getting obsolete. It doesn’t support the latest CSS goodies, that most other browsers do support. So while I can make the first letter of a chapter be twice as big in Safari, Internet Explorer just ignores it.
I have no sense of style, so the site doesn’t look that great, but I’m still experimenting. Eventually it should look good.
If anyone wants to check it out, you can access the generic info at http://members.shaw.ca/erikallen/kire/. I have ripped a lot of this from other campaign information that I’ve found around. I’m not as original as some might think.