Well, you're the one that keeps posting ;) j/k It's not a cult. I use Firefox as my main browser, but only because all my bookmarks are there and I like the ability to monitor which passwords it keeps, and which ones it doesn't. Mozilla offers more control over your browsing than IE.
As has been previously mentioned, it also generates less popups, is less prone to annoying javascripts, and you can have your main bookmarks onscreen without making the browser window narrower.
But I'm not a cult member. I use IE regularly for website testing, and for websites that don't work in Moz. I use Opera occasionally for small screen testing. Mozilla is great, but there's nothing that can touch IE for first time loading. Being a web developer I find it is imperative to test in all browsers, because I want my sites to be amongst the best out there. Period. I don't want my sites, that represent me, looking like something the cat threw up.
So yes, I use firefox and prefer it because of it's options. But I'm perfectly happy to use any browser out there. Firefox users vary from the fanatics to the casual users, and that's a spectrum matched in IE...
I don't really know what category this fits into, since I don't know where the problem lies yet, but hopefully someone can help me.
This is a 6 month old acer laptop, so it'll go back under warranty if it's hardware. There have been no hardware changes, and as far as I'm aware this came completely out of the blue (not my laptop).
When I turned it on, it had a black screen for ages, then it got to the bios screen and rebooted. It kept on looping like that. I pressed F2 and nothing happened, so the keyboard must be out in DOS as well. I knocked it off and knocked it back on again and it rebooted at the XP loading screen. It kept on doing this. It also brought up the boot menu, but only the up arrow works, and enter doesn't, so I couldn't boot in anything other than normal mode. After about 30mins of rebooting (with and without the aid of the power button) it finally reached Windows. I plugged in the mains adapter about 5mins before it finally loaded properly, so I don't know whether that affected it. It also managed to run some disk check in loading, and fixed a set of badly crosslinked files (?).
Eventually in Windows, only about 6 keyboard keys work. E, R and T, the up arrow and a few brackets.
I've scanned with Trend DCT and AVG, but nothing found. …
You seem to have blocked all the possible avenues... Your only hope would be to find somone knowledgable in perl/cgi. If you can't find anyone, let me know and I'll ask a few friends for you.
Does your form mailer tell you to use <input type="hidden" name="GOTOURL" value="http://www.heybyrne.co.uk/contact_confirm.htm"> ? Or did the instructions come from another mailer?
Hi There is a CSS property intended to do what you want, but browser support appears to be very limited. The property is "page-break-inside: avoid;" if you want it for future reference, but it's not really any use until Microsoft start supporting it - possibly in IE7.
If you're looking at less developed countries, you'll need to ensure fast download times. Also look at cross-browser compatibility - some people may use macs etc. You need a standard layout so that people know where to find things, and you need to make your navigation system clear so people who perhaps aren't too familiar with english can still find what they want.
Are we supposed to be commenting generally or on the link in your profile?
Thanks Alc. It's sitting on my desk right now waiting for some missing cables that they forgot to pack with it (a bad start!), but hopefully I'll be installing it next week. The only thing that bothers me is that it's going into a top end case that uses sliding rails for the drives, so I may have to do some drilling. It also has a door, which will interfere with the dials, so it'll have to be recessed lol. What fun...
HTML is a markup language with defined tags XML is a markup language where you make up your own tags XHTML is an XML implementation of HTML
from xml.com XML is a markup language for documents containing structured information.
Structured information contains both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some indication of what role that content plays (for example, content in a section heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something different than content in a figure caption or content in a database table, etc.). Almost all documents have some structure.
A markup language is a mechanism to identify structures in a document. The XML specification defines a standard way to add markup to documents.
What's a Document?
The number of applications currently being developed that are based on, or make use of, XML documents is truly amazing (particularly when you consider that XML is not yet a year old)! For our purposes, the word "document" refers not only to traditional documents, like this one, but also to the miriad of other XML "data formats". These include vector graphics, e-commerce transactions, mathematical equations, object meta-data, server APIs, and a thousand other kinds of structured information.
So XML is Just Like HTML?
No. In HTML, both the tag semantics and the tag set are fixed. An <h1> is always a first level heading and the tag <ati.product.code> is meaningless. The W3C, in conjunction with browser vendors and the WWW community, is …
Hi Michelle I'm going to be really busy with exams for a week and a bit. pm me a week tuesday if you still haven't solved it and I'll take a look for you. Regards Dave
A friend of mine has a VA3000SNA case, where the two fans are rated at 21dB. However they make a noise like a hurricane, which is amplified by the honeycomb grille of the case. The grilles will be replaced, but I'd like a fan controller to lower the speeds slightly - this is a normal system (2.6 gig Celeron) but it's used for band recordings so it needs to be quiet.
The fan connectors are strange though: They draw power from the 4 pin connectors that are available on CD and hard drives, but they have the three pin connector with just the feedback (?) wire attached.
What fan controller can I get that will accomodate this?
Thanks Catweazle - guess I should have mentioned it earlier! I think I'll go for a cheap Radeon to tide me over the exams, then splash out on something after my exams!
Yes it is a downgrade, but I only use this system for web design and playing comanche - never anything more demanding than that, so I wouldn't have thought I'd notice the difference... would I? Comanche runs smoothly using onboard graphics, so it's not all that demanding.
With the drivers, it happens right from the very first screen - the bios settings etc. It also happens in Linux (I have a multiboot) which uses a different set of drivers which I haven't reinstalled. Would that be equivalent to a reformat?
Hi again All the fans are running normally, and I've added more case fans to get more airflow. I've also cut away the pressed steel grilles and replaced them with thermaltake grilles. But the computer is still freezing up... I left it for a while, then booted to windows. I spent an hour looking at a pdf, but within 30 seconds of launching comanche it had frozen and brought up those lines again. The graphics card fan was running smoothly when I then looked at it. Did it just die when asked to do some work? Is this a problem with cooling? - the heatsink seemed cool enough when I touched it. Is it perhaps a different chip that isn't cooled, used by comanche - e.g. hardware T&L? Or is it more likely to be permenant damage to the card?
Hi Catweazle Thanks for the tips and reccomendations. I've found a few companies selling them, so maybe I'll order one. In the meantime I got the fan up and running via an alternate connector, so we'll see how it goes. Cheers Dave
Hi Catweazle When I checked it, everything was spinning nicely (more spin than labour in fact!!). I dismantled all the fans and heatsinks and hoovered (technically Dysoned) them till they were free from dust. So I loaded up the machine again and it died outright. I rebooted and it ran nicely for two levels, then froze on the third. I glanced inside at the fan, and the graphics card fan was on stop.
I'll check all the connections etc, but maybe it's time for a new cooler in there. I'm also reworking the airflow through my case (it's a cheap old mercury one).
I have an Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb card. I recently decided to disconnect my extra case fan at the back. It has worked normally for a few weeks. Yesterday when I turned it on, it got some way towards loading windows (I saw it at the grub bootloader stage) and the went black. I reset it, And carried on using the pc. Then I loaded up Commanche 4, and after a while the screen started getting garbled - most of it was there, but in places pixels from other parts of the screen were being displayed. Then the system froze.
I opened the case and it was rather hot inside, so I reconnected the case fan and let it cool. Today the same thing happened, it just lasted much longer before it started getting garbled. The air exiting the back of the case is still fairly cool.
I have preiously modified the airflow slightly by removing two pci covers to allow cool air in at the back by the graphics fan. Placing my hand over these I can feel an inflow of cool air.
Is my problem a cooling one, or is my graphics card just dying? I've reinstalled drivers and it's still the same.
I had this recently in a midi tower and the graphics card was overheating because it didn't have enough airflow. Have your fans clogged up with dust? or slowed down because of it?
You have a html editor and all the graphics programs you need. Basically any hammer will do the same job in building a fence provided the builder knows what he's doing, and that's why any html editor in the right hands will do the job perfectly. It's down to you to make it work.
Displaying your photos is a trade-off. You have to balance the download time for the user, the amount of bandwidth you have available, with the image quality you want.
The only hacks I've seen to get around it involve a stray font called arial unicode and a space with 0 width... And apparently it doesn't work if you don't have the font, so it doesn't seem worth investigating.
Hi Mr Confused The traditional way that you have seen 'printer friendly' pages is using the server to strip out menu code etc and provide the content only in a 100% width column for the printer. It is now possible to create printer friendly websites with print stylesheets. These are more compatible with pure CSS designs than table layouts, so you might experience some difficulties, unless you have already converted. You might want to read: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/
I guess the critical issue you may be noticing is that backgorunds don't print. This means a website will rarely look the same in print as it does onscreen. It is possible to 'work around' this (so long as you don't use too much of your users ink) by absolutely positioning images (using CSS) to replicate the screen look of the site. Most people however will still prefer your site not to print backgrounds.
Hopefully this helps you somewhat, but getting a website to display and print exactly the same is going to be difficult, unless you are an experienced designer with CSS skills.
Generally a pc without ram just beeps, but it probably depends on your rig.
I don't know whether you're UK or US based, but it might be a good idea to go to ebay and pick up a cheap post code reader - these tell you the error code for where your pc stops loading - a big help for troubleshooting dead machines! Thy're usually about £5.
Is the system set to autodetect hard drives on boot, or do you have to enter the bios to tell it to autodetect? Usually if you only have one drive you can't go too far wrong with the jumpers.
The problem appears to be that the menu uses javascript to change the cell id onMouseOver and onMouseOut. This means that the background is specified in both. IE clearly thinks it's two different images. (SM_c becomes SMcs)
I suggest you take all the references to the dkback.gif out of the SM_c and SM_cs items, and add a containing div around the menus which will then have the background in it. That won't change on mouseover, and should solve your problem.
If you want me to work on it further, can you zip up a html page with the menu on it, and the associated images and css files? It would be awkward to make a new stylesheet for it without the ability to test it...
Your 100%s and your entire font families should not be in quotes.
width: 100%; not width: "100%";
That was the only error flagged on the css sheet. The three warnings are there I think because you have all your fonts in one quotation. You can have them individually in quotes, but not the whole lot. You don't usually need them tho.
