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[resource] CSS Profile Sampler

Lord-of-the-flies

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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:44 am

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Welcome to the CSS Profile Sampler system by Lord-of-the-flies.

This is a fairly simple program which allows you to preview your CSS code before you confirm it on your profile. Originally, this tiny program was built to allow CSS coders to develop on the fly as everything is view on the spot, but the system was expanded to allow anyone to enter any code under any style to preview their profile.

Before anyone starts shouting "H4X>.<" for the system being able to see your profile, let me explain how this works. My code opens a connection with GAIA Online's port 80 (which is the way all browsers interact) and looks for your profile page, which is a standard URL with your ID number attached. The system then session caches a snippet of the page's HTML source, which it uses from that point on - removing the need to connect each time the style information is changed. Once you change your CSS, the system outputs the program's header, your CSS, the cached page, then the program's footer onto the display.

This program has a minimal data transfer with Gaia Online at this time. I'm working to completely eliminate all repeat transfer data.

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