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Forum: HTML and CSS Jul 22nd, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 390
Posted By MidiMagic
There are two kinds of css failure:
1. The css has errors in it that prevent correct rendering.
2. The css renders, but not the way the page creator wants.

1. Look for the following css errors...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 12th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 937
Posted By MidiMagic
You don't have to use different stylesheets for different browsers. I get stuff to work just fine with only one.

The following rules make pages work with all browsers:

- Don't use deprecated...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jul 8th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 926
Posted By MidiMagic
You are designing for the quirks mode of the browsers without the doctype. If you are in quirks mode, the browsers do weird things.

Standard mode puts the surrounding styles (margin, border,...
Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Jun 10th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 941
Posted By MidiMagic
It really can't be done in a way that works on all browsers. The web was designed so that you do not know what size the browser window is, and with no way to fit something exactly to the browser...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback May 28th, 2009
Replies: 11
Views: 1,643
Posted By MidiMagic
It's the fact that a playing movie usually expects to be on top, combined with the fact that the dropdown does not render until it activates.

We need some limits on what ads can do:

- They must...
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia May 28th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 5,955
Posted By MidiMagic
How about writing on how designers have to waste time rewriting web pages that used to work, because the software makers and the W3C keep changing the standards.

It's just like the forced change...
Forum: Windows Software Apr 18th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 744
Posted By MidiMagic
I had the same trouble.

My printer knows it can't print that close to the edge of the paper, so it won't do it.

Telling the printer that the paper is a different size just moves the definition...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Apr 11th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 492
Posted By MidiMagic
Of course, this might result:

Languages spoken:
xhtml, css, perl, pascal, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, C, ...

(English not listed)
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Apr 9th, 2009
Replies: 11
Views: 1,431
Posted By MidiMagic
Do you mean as in how Microsoft Word marks perfectly good grammar as bad, because it picks the wrong word to use as the verb?

I have never seen a grammar program that works right.

I have also...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Mar 29th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 652
Posted By MidiMagic
But be careful. If you pat yourself on the back too hard, you will fall off the pedestal you put yourself on. :icon_mrgreen:
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 24th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 614
Posted By MidiMagic
The xml line is not necessary, and causes errors on some browsers.

Look for styles containing both a size style (width, height) and a nonzero surrounding style (margin,. border, padding). These...
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia Feb 23rd, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 843
Posted By MidiMagic
Tips:

- Don't use pixels for anything other than border size.

- Use % measures for sizes and positions relative to the width of the browser.

- Use em measures for sizes relative to the...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 23rd, 2009
Replies: 32
Views: 3,201
Posted By MidiMagic
There is now a reason to use tables and css for layout, instead of divs and css.

Employers now prefer the table method. Our technical school instructors are now teaching this, instead of div and...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 17th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 519
Posted By MidiMagic
0px is an invalid style. Place units of measure on nonzero values that need them. Do not place units of measure on zero values. It causes some browsers to throw the entire style away.
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia Jan 31st, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 982
Posted By MidiMagic
This is one place where absolute positioning and pixel sizing fail miserably.

If you use size styles (width, height) in the same tag or style that contains nonzero surrounding styles (margin,...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Jan 19th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 797
Posted By MidiMagic
The search function is totally useless.

I am searching for an old post I made on fixing a problem with Firefox overlapping images with tables placed below them. The solution was in the post. But...
Forum: HTML and CSS Dec 29th, 2008
Replies: 16
Views: 4,020
Posted By MidiMagic
One page could then contain a link to the other, in a place where it is seen immediately.

Actually, I don't wrote for mobile devices, because I wish that every one of them would be crushed by...
Forum: HTML and CSS Nov 14th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 457
Posted By MidiMagic
I found two the validation service won't find:

1. You have an 0px style value in your p tag style. This is invalid in Firefox, and causes the entire p tag style to be thrown away. There may be...
Forum: HTML and CSS Oct 31st, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 2,377
Posted By MidiMagic
You have invalid code that causes FF to throw out the style it is in.

Zero values in styles must NOT have units of measures. Your 0px entries cause the style it is in to be thrown away by the...
Forum: HTML and CSS Oct 5th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 5,544
Posted By MidiMagic
Both the center tag and the align= parameter are deprecated. They will stop working sometime in the near future, when HTML 4 is no longer supported. They do not work at all in XHTML now. Please don't...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Aug 19th, 2008
Replies: 24
Views: 2,552
Posted By MidiMagic
The problem is that most software developers set prices as though businesses are the only customers. Individuals can't afford those prices.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 14th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 2,142
Posted By MidiMagic
The images are Word Art, which is part of Microsoft Word.

First, make sure you have copyright permission to use the document.

Use Ctrl-PrintScreen to take a screenshot. Then use MS paint to...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 11th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 608
Posted By MidiMagic
Sorry about the flowers and shrubs, honey. GPS is accurate to only 6 feet.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 14th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,480
Posted By MidiMagic
He means those things where you have to type in the letters visible in an image to validate the submission.

This requires a server-side script.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 10th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,987
Posted By MidiMagic
You have an improper nesting. The ul tag pair can't be inside a p tag pair. It kept the p tag pair from wrapping around the image.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 26th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 1,861
Posted By MidiMagic
0px, 0pt, and other zero values with dimensions kick Firefox into quirks mode, and often prevents the style containing it from operating. It shows up as an error in the Firefox error console. It...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 20th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 1,861
Posted By MidiMagic
A few points:

- 0px is an invalid style. It causes browser errors. Use 0 for values that are zero.

- Convert all size and alignment tag attributes to styles.

- Use classes, so each set of...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 2nd, 2008
Replies: 1,440
Views: 124,922
Posted By MidiMagic
It was not written hundreds of years after it happened. The Bible is a collection of records and letters written by many people over many hundreds of years. Most of these events were written down as...
Forum: HTML and CSS May 2nd, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 727
Posted By MidiMagic
Let's get rid of this "table vs css" idea. It's bogus.

Use table for tabular data, and other things that must be in clear rows and columns. You can use css to format the table nicer. Even rows of...
Forum: Windows Software Jan 25th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,572
Posted By MidiMagic
This is easy:

1. Using the downpointing black arrow mouse pointer (appears at the top of a column), select the columns you want distributed evenly by dragging across their tops.

2. Use the...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 22nd, 2008
Replies: 121
Views: 10,850
Posted By MidiMagic
1. Sign: DEMOC RAT EXTERMINATORS

2. Why is it that Democrats throw most of the stuff found along the road out of car windows?

3. A man is drowning 50 feet from shore. A Republican throws a 40...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 22nd, 2008
Replies: 411
Views: 43,670
Posted By MidiMagic
A man was given special dispensation to take a bar of gold with him into heaven.

When he got to the gate, Saint Peter saw the gold, and said, "Ah! There's the pavement I ordered. We have a pothole...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 18th, 2008
Replies: 12
Views: 2,599
Posted By MidiMagic
I see some things:

- You have an absolute size and a surrounding style in the same style entry. Don't put padding and width in the same block object. You can put a padding of 0 in such a style...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 12th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,470
Posted By MidiMagic
That's why I suggested that only the title bar across the top be the same. Make the main parts of the pages individual. You get it both ways.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 12th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 2,470
Posted By MidiMagic
You need a lot of little pages, not one huge one. Navigate between them with links.
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia Jan 7th, 2008
Replies: 13
Views: 2,937
Posted By MidiMagic
Please realize that you can't embed your player in a web page and have others use it. They can use only the players they have installed on their own computers.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 2nd, 2008
Replies: 716
Views: 76,646
Posted By MidiMagic
The problem is that I really don't like any of them.

But the ones I really don't want are the ones who would have government take over health care. They would likely remove the alternative...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 1st, 2008
Replies: 44
Views: 4,002
Posted By MidiMagic
By demanding freedom from religion.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 26th, 2007
Replies: 26
Views: 2,721
Posted By MidiMagic
No, I have been forced to use Windows, because the Internet is no longer compatible with DOS computers.

But I have multiple computers. I do my research on the DOS computer, because the timesharing...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 26th, 2007
Replies: 14
Views: 1,949
Posted By MidiMagic
They get it upside down because usually you have the word "up" on the box with an arrow pointing up. But when you turn the box upside down, it now has the abbreviated word "dn" on it with an arrow...
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