An Introduction to your "Portable Desktop"
I had originally built the portable desktop to provide for the general public that which I wanted for myself: a portable, real-time, online file system that is user-friendly, "network friendly and "information friendly".
I also wanted a “captain’s chair” from which I could navigate to my favourite stops in cyber space – organizing my favourites in a GUI environment (not a menu system that too easily becomes convoluted and difficult to use when trying to find a particular webpage).
I also wanted online documents: scripts, text, music, video and web-pages. The "webpage" file type is a remnant of a HTML course I taught online some years back. I had wanted a system by which my students could type in their code and instantly render it to see what it looked like – without having to save their webpage, tab over to the browser, and refresh the browser – too many steps and too much time.
Using the PI-tag workshop (online webpage) students, web designers or internet enthusiasts can type in their HTML while toggling back and forth between edit and view modes, using the toolbar
or the keyboard shortcut (+ key in the numeric keypad).I use these online web pages to prototype excitingly new PI tags, such as the doc and t tags.
The t tag produces a standard text box that is anything but standard. If you specify a “field” attribute in this tag, then you have a “sticky note” – just like real, live, pen & paper offices use. Try typing
<p style="font-size:12pt;">I <t field="First Name"style="width:120;"/>, <t field="Last Name"style="width:120;"/> do solemnly swear, etc.</p>
into an online webpage and then hit the + key in the numeric keypad.Every day or two I will use this blog to publish a tip, module, code or suggestion related to “what can be done with my portable desktop”.
Over the next couple of weeks I will write about:
- Personalize your portable desktop: the desktop.
- Personalize your portable desktop: Appearance.
- Personalize your portable desktop: System preference.
- The menu system.
- Files and Folders.
- The PI explorer.
- Content management – windows.
- Content management – document trees.
- Music and Videos.
quote
Individuals are but the product of one’s thoughts, what one thinks, one becomes.. - Mohandas Gandhi
posted by pieV at 2:36 PM
3 Comments:
I just filled out a legal form from my lawyers which had yellow sticky noted on it like your sample. I wish they would have had this online so that I didn't have to go into their office.
Do the <t tags have to be properly formed? what if I had:
<t field="Court No."> ?
Hello Morana, yes this particular tag does have to be properly formed - which means it must have a closing tag, either implicitly as shown in the example, or as follows:
<t field="name"></t>
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