Posts by MidiMagic

Do a search for the url itself on each engine you want.

The problem is that you are putting size styles (width, height) and nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same tag.

This is an IE / FF incompatibility.

- FF obeys the standard, putting the surrounding styles outside the size styles.

- IE disobeys the standard, cramming the surrounding styles inside the size styles.

The trick is to nest tags, giving one the size style and the other one the surrounding style.

You can embed styles into the tags themselves with the style="..." attribute. Example:

<p style="text-align: center;">
 text
</p>

I have looked at this.

Their css is made using style names most people would never think of, using special characters.

The code showing those numbers is a server-side script.

It's a kludge.

Don't use negative surrounding styles. They are not defined, and can do widely different things on different browsers.

You can't have negative surrounding styles.

margin-top: -12px;
	margin-bottom: -18px;

These are causing the overlapping.

Why are you using them?

Negative surrounding styles are not really defined, and do different things in IE and FF.

- Since FF obeys the standard and puts surrounding styles outside the size of a box object, a negative surrounding style makes the surrounding style intrude on the contents of the box. This causes the boxes to overlap when rendered, since they are larger than their margins.

- Since IE does not obey the standard, it puts the surrounding styles inside the size of the box object. So negative surrounding styles stick out from the box.

The best thing to do is to not define sizes and surrounding styles on the same tag.

Always design for FF first, since it obeys the standard. Then, all browsers except IE will work. Then adjust your design to also work in IE.

You won't the the resolution of today's monitors. TV is compatible with the old CGA 640 X 480 screen.

The BIOS battery might have died. It's rechargeable, but sometimes they totally give out. Then the computer forgets what hardware it has.

Can I move the DSL modem's Ethernet cable back and forth between two computers?

If so, is there anything special I need to know to do it?

Why not just stop worrying about it? Post a little box above the edit window telling how to use them, and then forget it.

If they don't use the code tags, they don't use the code tags. Ignore it. The polar ice cap won't melt because they forgot the code tags.

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 paste it into a blank document. Cut out the parts you want, and save them as .jpg images by pasting them into blank images.

You can also use the "Save as Web Page" option in the Word file menu. But it produces a huge messy web file.

Note that the z-index is not yet well implemented in all browsers.

Try using the image as the background image instead.

Defining widths and heights in pixels makes the site incompatible with many screen resolutions. Use CSS to define sizes as percentages or points.

Also, don't put size styles (width, height) and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same tag. That guarantees an IE/FF incompatibility, because IE doesn't obey the standard order of rendering.

IE crams the surrounding styles inside the defined size. The standard places them outside the defined size.

Don't use absolute positioning.

Report it to the ISP administrator.

If the ISP won't or can't stop it, change ISP services.

Try nesting a div in there and set its height.

Personally, I am totally sick of hover activations and dropdown menus. Why not just leave it on the screen.

This is a setting on most browsers, although some don't print the background at all.

On Firefox, the setting is in the Page Setup dialog box.

In addition, the printer and the printer driver mist be capable of doing this.

This doesn't work very well on screens with low resolution, unless you prefer the page to be scrolled horizontally.

The page can keep its identity better if you define sizes in percent and points, instead of pixels.

There is no way provided in html or xhtml to position something at the bottom of the screen. And there is no way to make a full screen display that works on all screens and browsers.

The Internet does not work that way. It has no idea of what a screen is. It starts filling in at the top, and expands downward until all of the material is rendered. The width of the display is considered, but not its height.

The reason for this is twofold:

1. There are too many different kinds of screens, each with its own screen resolution. What overflows into scrolling on one screen will be scrunched up in the top of another screen.

2. There are modes of rendering that do not use video displays. A screen, and screen positions, are meaningless to a speech unit for the blind.

You are trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

It is not a good idea to make text blink. It can cause epileptic seizures. I have seen this happen.

It is not a good idea to use nonstandard tags or features.

Spybot trashed the operating systems on many of our computers. The administrators recently banned it.

I do not want to know "better" antivirus programs, because I have neither purchase authority nor the choice of what programs are allowed on our computers. An administrator determines that, because many antimalware programs mess with his custom administration software.

I need to know what to use among the allowed programs. We can use:

Windows Defender
Symantec Antivirus
Ad Aware

One thought is that some people are not closing files properly.

There are some viruses that report "problems with the hard drive." Then you click on the link provided, and give the virus permission to do things it otherwise can't do.

Sorry about the flowers and shrubs, honey. GPS is accurate to only 6 feet.

The real money worshipers are Congressmen, who keep stealing more of our money for their nefarious purposes. That's why nobody has enough left to give to the church.

The ones I worry about are the ones who expect government to do everything for them.

This is the silly forum, not the help form, so we hid all the asps.

Here is a list of rules (with annotations) that me and a couple of friends made a while back. By the way, if anyone has something like Women rules for men please post it here. Also if I left anything out feel free to add to the list.

1. Men are NOT mind readers.
(Psychic ability is not an upgrade.)

2. Learn to work the toilet seat.
You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
(If the lid is down too, then the user knows how many objects to grab in advance.)

3. Sunday sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.
(For geeks, substitute programming for sports.)

4. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
(Shopping destroys male sexual energy. So does carrying heavy packages.)

5. Crying is blackmail.
(It also violates the noise ordinance.)

6. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!
(We do not speak Darmok at Tanagra.)

7. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
(20 questions is an invalid …

No one said the rules were fair, but putting down the toilet seat is a small price for peace :P

Then why is it that my mother complains if I leave the lid up, but the seat down, and my girlfriend complains if I leave the both the seat and lid down?

Try turning on the light first. Then you can SEE the status bits of the device.

The only time I leave both up is so the user can see the green cleaner I put in there, that must wait an hour, then be brushed and flushed before use.

They make a little attachment with a light that is red when the seat is up, and green when it is down.

Put them, one after the other, in the same html file. You can use notepad to do this. Here is a sample of parts the finished file.

<body>
<h1>Index</h1>
<p>
  <a href="Itineraires/1.html">GPX1</a>
  <a href="Itineraires/2.html">GPX2</a>
  <a href="Itineraires/3.html">GPX3</a>
</p>
</body>

This displays:

GPX1 GPX2 GPX3

Each one is a clickable link (which I can't make blue, due to the stoopid color limitations on this site, so I made then green).

The host is adding them to display advertising. That's how you get free web hosting.

You have to copy the images onto the server. The Internet can't see what is on your PC.

What are you doing with the comment tags????

The use of <!-- --> tags to hide code from the browser is very iffy now. The standard has changed, and browsers are changing to match, one at a time.

Any trick that works now will be very short-lived, as more browsers make the changes. Use comments only to enclose comments.

I need advice on these programs, not suggestions on other programs. And I do not want ANY pay programs.

Possibilities:

- The page you are viewing is in cache, and no longer exists at the original site. Clear your cache.

- You are out of hard disk space.

- The reserved internet cache space is too small for the file you are trying to download.

There is a setting that replaces the current page, rather than opening a new page.

Try opening two browser windows.

Wait until Windows Update finishes. This usually takes several minutes. Then it quits using the CPU time.

That's why we back up files.

Office 2007 files do not open on Office 2003. MS changed the file format.

Suggestions on doing it without JavaScript:

- Use percentage sizes.

- Don't use pixel sizes.

- No images larger than 400 px, unless it will be alone in the horizontal dimension. In that case, no images larger than 640 px.

- Leave enough space for the parts to move farther apart or closer together as the window size changes.

- Don't put size styles (width, height) and nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same tag. This removes differences between browsers.

- Don't use absolute positioning. This removes differences between browsers.

- Use restore-down on the browser and change the window size to test what happens at lower resolutions.

Just put them all in the same file, and click the one you want.

Installing Windows should not affect your other files, unless they reside in an area Windows needs for its contiguous files.

Also, he might not be the one who installed a pirate copy of Windows. An unscrupulous dealer may have done it.

It has to know the filenames and locations too.

This problem is really two common ones:

- You can't control where the browser leaves the viewport after you change the visible page contents. The web was not designed for pages that change size after they are rendered. The location of the viewport after such an operation is defined by the browser software. You could use JavaScript to put the focus on some element at the top after changing the visibility of items.

Your customer has no control over what browser software does. What he wants and what the browser does are two different things.

- Transparency and the z axis are not well implemented yet.

Normally stuff is supposed to be INSIDE other stuff, not under a transparent object, and not on top of another object.

Hit your restore-down button and see what those sites look like in a small window.

Option 3: Make an animated image. The image doesn't rotate. The contents do.

I have several questions on antivirus and antispyware software:

I am trying to settle on a set of antivirus and antispyware products to use. The problem is that I get interactions.

1. Is windows Defender any good? Does it handle spyware as well as viruses?

2. Is there any way to prevent Symantec Anti Virus from reporting a caboodle of tamper errors every time I run Ad Aware?

3. How do you tell Windows Defender to ignore certain files. The help files are extremely vague, and I want it to leave the file alone, instead of scanning it.

I fixed the two that didn't want to install. Symantec Anti Virus tamper protection was blocking the install.

That's what backup files are for.

Try taking a look at this, maybe it will help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

That fixed it.

It looks like Microsoft did a "Wups".

Their update design expected everything to be done in order. They forgot that someone might have to rebuild after a crash or malware ruined something.

I will mark this as solved once all of the updates install. Two of them didn't want to.

The bug is that you have to wait longer. Why not just make the try again in 15 seconds, instead of 52?

It also makes you wait a full minute between reports of spam posts.