I love MoHPC!

[Jonathan Busby]

(02-15-2021 05:40 PM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  Thank you! Currently, I am working on a modernization/refresh of the museum, converting from 1995ish HTML version (whatever) into more modern HTML and CSS. I'm not making any dramatic changes like multi column things, floating things or pop-up annoyances, but I am making it so it doesn't fill the entire screen with tiny text if you visit with a huge browser window and at the other end, also works well on phones, even fairly small ones.

This is something I have started and stopped several times in the past but I think I finally have it under control now. A big step forward happened when I realized that because I was adding CSS to otherwise old pages, the browser was seeing the old-style pages and going into "quirks mode" meant to make old websites presentable. Thus, many of my "Why doesn't this stuff ever work as documented?" questions went away once I figured out how not to be seen as old.

So now I have a Perl script to process old HTML into new HTML, and apply my CSS, then do some hand adjusting. Then I check it on a few devices and w3c validate it. So far, (as of last night) I have processed 12 out of a few hundred pages (or over a thousand including the old software library) but I think it will go much faster as it gets more routine. For the last couple of weeks, I've been at the: It's pretty much done, but oh look, … another interesting case in this page… update the script and/or CSS or just handle it manually...

One of the things that has kept me from adding new content in previous years is the feeling that I shouldn't be adding new content in an old format that all needs to be updated someday anyway.

Once, I get the update done, I might want some help on newer models! Most of my fanaticism was on the earlier models and then I got distracted by the 90 hour a week job I took in 1982.

At the very least, a listing of any features that were new to that model, or ways that it was distinct or unusual would help!

This is great news! I have been waiting for some of the "newer but out of production" models like the HP48G/G+/GX to be added. I think they should qualify for the Museum proper since they've been out of production for almost 18 years.

Also, I think some of the pages might need manual conversion to HTML5, especially pages like the Benchmarks page, which is a mess

At any rate, thanks so much for your efforts! This site is invaluable to the HP calculator community and I hope it stays that way for many years to come

Regards,

Jonathan