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Like I mentioned earlier, apparently my host, R4L, had an automated tool that apparently fixed it. The red line was no longer across the padlock.
        However, there was a little black dot on the image. I clicked it, and Firefox informed me that there were unprotected elements and suggested images. So I opened the index page in notepad, and the images were all in-line, no http or https;
        So I set it aside for a while. The answer would come to me, as it usually does eventually.
        It did the next morning. I make it a habit to read a chapter out of the Bible while my coffee is brewing, and remembered that all the illustrations in my online King James on my web site were actually on Wikipedia. So I opened every file; there’s one for each book, and did a global replace of http with https.
        It took quite a while. I uploaded the files, and the little black dot is still there with the same message.
        At any rate, both Opera and Chrome show the site as secure, so I’m not going to worry about it. Unless, of course, I think of something else.
        I wrote the above yesterday before I went to the bar. When I got to the bar, they told me the shuffleboard scoreboard was messing up. I looked at the old Samsung Tab 3 I had donated, and its old proprietary browser would no longer display a secure page at all!
        A week or so ago I’d tried downloading Firefox so that it could display the scoreboard fullscreen, but Google Play wouldn’t let me in; two factor authentication. Stupid. I don’t have to show ID to enter a physical store. At any rate, I’ll go back this afternoon with the notebook with email.
        As to the stupid dongle, the old phone I was using as the radio crapped out, so I was back to using Bluetooth on the tablet, which was a lousy solution, as when I changed inputs the stupid tablet started making noise; the noise of a commercial. Annoying.
        And then I realized that I’d not tried using Bluetooth with Windows 10. I wasn’t hopeful that they fixed it, Microsoft almost never fixes broken junk when they “update” their OS, they just add eye candy and move everything around so you have to learn how to use it all over again.
        But amazingly, they actually fixed it! So I have KSHE playing over Bluetooth from the tablet, and the tower plays tunes from the file server.
        So I took my laptop to the bar, and Google annoyed me no end trying to get into Google Play. Searching for Firefox returned only Chrome and Opera. Apparently Firefox won’t run on that old browser because it wasn’t in Google Play at all. So I installed Opera; Chrome showed a scary thing saying my SSL wasn’t good, but I never see that in Chrome on any other device, so it’s probably just that ancient tablet.
        I ran the browser, put the scoreboard as its home screen, and had it put a link to the page on the tablet’s home screen. I handed it back to the bartender, who came back and said the back and reset buttons were missing. They were. WTF?? There must be something wrong with the code. I told the bartender I’d have to look at the code, in Canada, when I got home. Actually it’s on my hard drive, too. She wanted me to take the tablet home and bring it back, probably not realizing I might have to adjust 44 files.
        Than Patty called crying. Her eleven year old cat that the vet had told her wouldn’t see four because it had FIV, the cat version of AIDS, had cancer. I was surprised that her talking to me cheered her up. I wonder how long the cat has? That’s why I’ll never have another animal, it hurts too bad when they die.
        I finished my second beer and took the tablet home, and started opening HTML scoreboard files. I opened B0.html, the file that displays a blue zero in notepad, and there was no back or reset!
        I looked at its backup. It was the same.
        When I had first gone to the bar there was a guy from Texas spouting Quazy antivax conspiracy theories. Maybe I was being infected by his insanity, because I started to wonder if my original code had somehow traded places with code from an alternate reality or something. It made no sense. Did somebody hack me, and my host? Both theories were equally ludicrous.
        After loading a dozen HTML files into notepad without actually looking at any of them, I noticed something—B4.html had the back and reset button, which is when the light went on. A score of zero needs no reset to bring it to zero, and there is no -1. I’m thinking of adding gray back and reset to the zeros so if something like this comes up in a couple of years, it won’t make me crazy.
        I hope nobody tries to use my site with an outdated tablet and browser now that I have SSL, because it makes old tablets and browsers freak out. But I imagine if someone has used the same tablet for ten years, they’re used to secure sites breaking.
        Whatever happened to backwards compatibility? I’m using HTML 4.1, two decades old but it still breaks with a browser newer than that hitting a secure site. It’s a little insane.