Elena had the design for her site completely laid out as it is, although her Spartan taste is much to my approval. What I've done is turn out some good old fashioned static HTML based on her layout. She is hosting ElenaSoterakis.com with us at Praxis, and intends to have some dynamic content developed soon.

The welcome page text animation had a big memory leak. I found all sorts of solutions on the web to resolve JavaScript leaks that result from result bad garbage collection of circular references, but my issue seems to be unique. I've found that within callback functions from timers set by setTimeout or setInterval, use of innerHTML whatsoever will grow your process memory.

     function leak()
     { 
          document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = 'foo';
     }
 
     var timer = setInterval(leak, 100);

That all there is to it. The workaround I had to apply was to use the innerHTML property within timer calls. Here is a demonstration of the bug. Watch your process memory grow while the "innerHTML Loop" is running, however remain constant if you start up the "innerText Loop." The relevant version of IE that I'm aware of is 6.0.

This week I resurrected the online presence of my father's poetry. sharpenedspurs.com is a shortening the title of the original printed work "sharpened spurs tread in soft lament", which happens to be one of the poems (in its entirety). Bob's work is mostly in the style of E. E. Cummings, and mostly way out there. Much like this site, sharpenedspurs.com is just some dressed up Blogger output, but I like it just fine.