Have been playing with this site and generic HTML tricks when I should be doing serious work. is going to be a really great product if I can ever get it finished. Whenever I talk to anyone about the software I’m working on, it’s that getsthem excited. And yet I never seem to have time to spare on it (although I have been working on both font rendering and regular expression searching, which may both help with BookReader)

Things I have done today:

• Piddling about with logos and icons, adding dropshadows etc.
• Simplifying some software pages, sticking more info on a single page.
• Made choose different icons for files that are missing. So that pages look nice but still have visual indication that files aint there.
• Adding support to to allow it to spot and modify urls inside style attributes. This way relative links will be preserved for style="background-image: url(http://www.jujusoft.com/http://www.jujusoft.com/images/foo.gif)" in those off chance where I want to set background image on a page by page basis. The reason for doing such a thing is to get tacky effects like this:

1. Here is the image that will be framed:
   
2. Here is the image that will be used as a mask:
   
3. Here is the result of combining 1 & 2. Image 1 is set as "background-image" in style attribute, and the mask image (2) is set as the SRC attribute. The example does not look so great here because the mask was created for light colored images, and is being arbitrarily scaled here:
   
   The source for this combined image:

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