Hey campers, Marine officers need to have turnover binders for their job. They should get one from their predecessor--a 3 ring binder with an assortment of information in it that is supposed to aid them in performing their duties. Then they are supposed to maintain this binder, so when their successor comes along, it is up-to-date. In reality the turnover binder as often as not collects dust on the shelf and may well have SOPs in it on how to deal with a Soviet attack. So I started making a "virtual" turnover binder. Since everything is electronically created nowdays anyway, I would print out the binder, but I'd also create an electronic binder using HTML. I'd have all the required "pages", but with links to other websites, documents on file on the hard drive, and a hotlinked e-mail directory. Then all this, in addition to being printed out for the required paper binder and being burned onto a CD to go in the binder, would be saved on the hard drive with a handy shortcut on the desktop so you could actually reference the material every day, as needed. The thing I'm wondering, is there any way a person can code HTML so that it will open a folder? I want to whip up a folder that has an archive of all relevant emails in it. But because there are literally hundreds of emails, I don't want to fuck around with linking to each individual one. I just want to say: "Here. Here's a bunch of emails. You may never need them, but if push comes to shove, go nuts." Or they could, conceivably import them into a mail program. Whaddya say? Is it do-able? (I haven't tried yet, but I figured I'd ping you all while I was working on something else.)
if you're using IE, and with the security set appropriately: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>C Folder</title> </head> <body> <iframe src="C:\" /> </body> </html> i'd suggest a properly coded intranet site though, using server-side tech.
Intriguing. I'll have to give that a shot. Unfortunately I burned up my rep for the day in a raid on Flashlight, so I'll have to catch you later. Security is at present a non issue. I'm not putting the info over the Internet--just leaving it local to a machine. See, the guy who invented the web browser invented it not to browse the Internet, but too more easily find files on his computer. Then in the mid 1990s, some guy made the leap and realized that the bastard was scalable and that the Internet could be viewed as one great big computer. Well, I'm getting back to the roots. I'm using a "website" as a local tool for organizing files that reside on a computer (actually, now that I think about it, there are a couple external links... ). So it shouldn't be an issue.
Well, I can't quickly and easily find a link that proves my point but it is something I've heard from more than one source. And the point itself is true. A browser is really little more than a graphic-oriented way to access files on a computer or networked computers.
Be careful with those external links. And the internal ones as well. External sites tend to disappear, giving you dead links without knowing it. If the info is static, better to download the entire site and include it in a directory belonging to your binder. The internal folders should, of course, not be messed with after you create the binder - which can be a problem in the future. If your successor e.g decides to file his pr0n under 'xxx' instead of under 'p' all your links are suddenly dead. You'd have a WF gallery-class disaster! So you might want to restrict access to those folders, or put all of it only on a cd and write instructions explaining why the directory structure has to remain the same.
