Posts by MidiMagic

Do you have to read all the posts you already read on a 5 page topic?

Nobody knows what color they were in the first place.

Look at photos of reptiles.

You want a master painter in a box?

Try some of the image effects in Corel Draw and Corel PhotoPaint.

The 3D effect of the picture itself is done by the photographer at the time the picture is taken.

This is a lighting technique I have used in photography. The keylight is placed in front, above and to one side of the subject (in this photo, it is to the upper left of the camera). Then, other fill-in lights are added to produce the wanted 3D effect.

The shadow is done with a gradient from the edge of the image to the transparent background.

You learn JavaScript and write it. It must be specific to your images.

Actually, height and width are taken from the container of the tag specified. The body tag takes its width from the browser window width. The height of the body tag depends on which browser is used. IE uses the window height if the page fits, and the length of the rendered page if it doesn't. FF always uses the length of the rendered page.

For which sized screen and which browser?

That window is not always the same size. And the page designer can't know the size of that window when designing the page.

The height of the screen is irrelevant to web browser rendering. You cannot define things to be a certain percentage of the height of the browser window. The web doesn't work that way.

Web design is such that the display starts at the top, and expands downward as needed to render everything. This is necessary, because screen sizes vary from 640 x 480 px all the way up to 2560 x 2048 px. In addition, the user might be using a restored down window, instead of a maximized window.

So you can't design a page that exactly fills the screen. Such a design would work on only your computer, and a few others configured the same way your computer is configured. You have to make a general design that works on any resolution.

So you can use the following techniques to approximate a screenfull:

- Make the page scroll if the screen is too small for its contents.

- Leave enough space. Then when the browser window gets smaller (pixel-wise), the components can drift closer together.

- Design for the smallest resolution. Then the page can either expand into a bigger resolution, or have a blank space at the bottom.

I thought you could have clicked on the images to see the enlarged versions...

I did, but the text is illegible in the enlarged version at my screen resolution.

So is there no way to fix the size of the side panel and only make the content panel (right) size according to the window size? I've seen it work before somewhere I just couldn't find the link back.... and that is really what I want to acheive.

It can be done, but not by using width: 100%;

You need a container that can change size. But don't expect all browsers to be able to render a page with elements that change size the same way.

I would take the easy way out:

Assume the page is named wally.htm .
1. Make a copy of the page called wally2.htm .
2. Configure the wally.htm file to display without the added part. Leave it out entirely
3. Configure the wally2.htm file to display with the added part.
4. Change the link in each page that was formerly used to make the added part change visibility so it instead links to the other page.

I don't understand this part: I changed the body margin and padding styles to 1px instead of 0px and nothing drastic happens except the expected 1px margin and padding around it.

You need to change it to 0, not 0px. Take off the unit of measurement if the value is …

The trouble is that people looking for a product in a work environment do NOT want music blaring up in the middle of their cube farm. This causes prariedogging, as neighboring workers pop up to see what caused the disturbance.

ummm if you refering to the yahoo reset.css its perfectly fine to just say 0. afterall 0Apples == 0Oranges. But yes if your trying to say font-size:0; in respect to image replacement, it wont work in IE6. you must say

What is not OK is saying 0px, 0pt, or 0em. If the value is 0, it must NOT have a unit of measure appended. It causes errors in Mozilla browsers (Firefox, Netscape) that cancel the entire style.

Well having sent the page of to Browsershots.org we get a consistent effective layout, centerd to the page. Further i have looked at this across IE6, IE7, FF3, FF2 and all seems fine. for more info on Padding and Margins see the box model .... maybe you need to reset the browser defaults to get a consistent look

The box model is nice. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't observe it.

W3C says the box model is (from outside to inside):
- margin
- border
- padding
- width and height styles of object
- the object

But Microsoft uses:
- width and height styles of object
- margin
- border
- padding
- the object

These are differences in how the browsers are internally defined. The only way to get rid of the problem is for Microsoft to go belly-up (or be antitrusted into baby Bills). Microsoft will not follow the standard.

If …

There are several effects occurring here:

- Pixel positioning and sizing are defined differently for different browsers and screen resolutions.

- IE puts the surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) inside the measured size styles (height, width). Other browsers follow the W3C standard, placing them outside the size styles. This causes problems in fit.

- Any time the components of a page will not fit in the allowed space, the components will rearrange themselves so they have room to render. This is especially true of anything in a div.

This is a fundamental HTML error.

The div tag cannot have the table tag or the tr tag as its parent. It must be either outside the table, or inside a td tag. And the only legal parent of a td tag is a tr tag.

Also, note that some browsers have trouble displaying a structure later, if it is initially not displayed.

It's malware.

Unfortunately, the only way I know how to get rid of it is reinstall Windows. It replaces some files with its own, including explorer.exe.

The BIOS might be set to not boot from the CD. Check the setting.

Is this a third party program?

DR-DOS is an MS-DOS clone. It is itself an operating system.

[dr-dos] A:\>

The above is a command prompt, like the C:\> prompt in Windows cmd mode.

It reminds me of my DOS 6.2 / Win 3.1 system. I have to type

win

to start Windows.

I noted that it is defaulting to the floppy drive A:. It might be that the program expects to boot from a floppy.

It might also be that the files do not exist on the source disk, or that the destination disk is full.

The problem is that those antivirus programs need to use the Internet to update their virus lists.

As long as socialists intent on destroying free enterprise, foreign nations intent on spying, and teenagers with nothing better to do, can create malware, the virus definitions on your computer must be updated daily. A virus scanner with year-old definitions won't find the latest nasties.

This is proof that Microsoft made Windows too complicated. It's own install disk can't repair the installation.

Did you delete the games? Or did something else happen?

- You accidentally removed the games folder from the startup programs list.

- You accidentally dragged the folder to another location.

Use the Search function in My Computer to look for them.

Here is how it works:

1. Each small photo is a reduced size and resolution thumbnail image of its larger photo.

2. Each thumbnail is made a clickable device with an onclick to call a JS function for that photo. There is one function for each photo.

3. The function loads the image into an img container for the large picture.

You need to calculate the aspect ratio from the original image sizes, not the sizes of the strechable container.

I spotted another error. The 0px style entries cause FF to throw out the entire style statement containing them (everything between the curly brackets is thrown out).

The standard calls for 0 entries to not have dimensions, and FF adheres to this standard, calling the 0px an error. Use the FF error console to find these.

Also, when you have nonzero surrounding styles on a 100% width, it causes an error in FF, but not in IE. This is because IE (wrongly) puts the surrounding styles inside the defined width, while FF puts them outside. Thus, FF has to kitbash the page to make it render. It usually makes the page wider than defined.

I see your problem, but I can't read the screen shots (the text is itty bitty). It took a lot of scrutiny to finally see that the page is wider than the window. I couldn't ee that before.

Why can't you put the green background color in a style to be applied to the table, instead of to the div?

I think the 100 percent width applied to the content div is confusing the browser, since it is not intended to be 100 percent of the container of that div when the other div is to the left of it. I have seen divs do some really weird things when given contradictory information. You are saying 100% without always meaning it.

FF is rendering the object as 100% of its container - the width of the page. IE is rendering it as 100% of the available space. These two have a LOT of differences in how they render widths and heights.

You are trying to do something the system was not really designed to do, so there is no agreement on how to do it. Making elements appear and disappear, and changing the sizes of other elements when those elements appear and disappear (but after they are rendered), also does strange things. Different browsers choose to do different things in this case. It is obvious that FF is choosing to make the page wider, rather than change the size of the object. IE is changing the …

This is usually not a browser issue, but a player issue. The player expects to be on top when it is running.

You are using deprecated codes. Editors tend to ignore them.

The following are deprecated:
the font tag
align=
color=
size=
bgcolor=
center (except as an argument for text-align)

Most search engines now totally ignore the keywords meta values, because too many businesses have used false keywords to attract search engines. You can totally leave out both meta items listed above, because they don't do anything anymore.

You do need a meta item to define the character set your page uses:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

What's wrong with a static list of links on the page? Does everyone absolutely need the latest bells and whistles?

it may be a 'NO NO' bit it doesnt stop creatives, designers & flash sites using it which take little consideration of screen sizes anyway... unless it's expanding to 100%.

As a developer you may need to meet the requirments or specifiaction regardless of your perosnal opinion or rules.

If someone specifies something that can't be done, he is demonstrating that he is uninformed. If, after being informed, he still insists, he must be replaced. It is impossible to change the viewing user's computer to meet the bigwig's specs, and illegal to try to do so.

You can approximate a centered page on a browser window, but don't expect it to keep the same proportions or the same vertical positioning on all computers. Web pages expand downward until all of the content can be rendered. Objects with flexible sizes help, but are not always available. And a user with a low screen resolution must always scroll down on a page designed for higher resolution.

We just got a lot of LCD displays that won't display our old web pages without scrolling in both directions. The images are too big.

You have other errors in your file that will cause nonrendering of styles or large differences between IE and other browser renderings:

1. You have units of measure on 0 values (e.g. 0px). This causes some browsers to cancel the entire style. If a value is 0, do not attach a unit of measure to it.

2. You have size styles (width, height) and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) applied to the same tag. This causes rendering differences, because IE puts the surrounding styles INSIDE the size styles, but other browsers put them outside.

JavaScript can NOT collect user information, because it runs on the user's computer, not your server.

If you are trying to center it vertically, that is a no-no in web design. It can't be done in a way that works on all screen resolutions and browser window sizes.

Centering horizontally is hard, because the "brains" at w3c TOOK AWAY THE EASY WAY TO DO IT, without replacing it. Unfortunately, their prescribed method doesn't work on all browsers.

You have to use different methods, depending on what you are trying to center:

Center text reliably using the following code:
In the stylesheet, place:

.cenx {text-align: center;}

Then, where you want to place the centered text, put this code:

<div class="cenx">Your Text to be Centered</div>

The div tag may be replaced by the p tag or one of the h tags.

Center images reliably using the following code:
In the stylesheet, place:

.cenx {text-align: center;}
.ceni {clear: both;}
.bxfix {margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0;}

Then, where you want to place the centered image, put this code:

<div class="bxfix cenx">
  <img src="yourimag.jpg" alt="description" class="ceni" />
</div>

There must be room for the image, or it messes up the page.

Center other objects reliably using the following code:
In the stylesheet, place:

.cenx {text-align: center;}
.ceni {clear: both;}
.bxcen {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none; padding: 0;}

Then, where you want to place the centered object, put this code:

<div class="bxcen cenx">
  <tag>Your object</tag>
</div>

Put the name of the tag for the object you …

All attributes of the type attribute="argument" now need quotes around the arguments. PHP knows this.

Probably the easiest and most compatible way is to make a .gif image of the character you want. Then use:

.bul {list-style-image: url(broketbullet.gif);}

Then, at the appropriate list:

<ul class="bul">
...
</ul>

Note that if you have a sublist inside the list with the custom bullets, you will need to create another style to return the bullets or numbers of the inner list back to the proper kind.

I loaded WGA and Windows Defender after the second infestation. WGA said my windows was genuine.

Could WGA be messing up the downloads.

A carpet of dust! That sounds like brushing the dog, and getting enough hair to make another dog.

Usually this error message means that the site administrator of the site you are trying to view has forgotten to make the files public-read again after updating them. I have done that myself a few times.

I have also seen it when a website such as eBay blocked access to an entire ISP because someone was sending spam or malware from there (or faking the ISP return address on it).

I have also seen the error when the site was doing a full backup. Service was restored about 15 minutes later.

Check the volume control advanced setting and see if the balance control is all the way to the right.

The plug might be only half inserted into the jack. I have found a few PCs where the plug handle is too big to go into the recess provided.

You could have also blown the soundcard.

I have seen a fake explorer.exe, and I have seen a registry setting do this.

Did it change your desktop telling you to 'click here to remove virus'.....that is the one I battled for a while. I ran norton 360, then trend micro house call to finally be rid of it. But is sounds like the same thing....you might also need to run reg cure, or reg fixer afterward.....good luck!

Where are these?

I usually have to close My Computer and then open it again to see my flash drive.

Or try View/Refresh.

Windows Explorer, My Computer, My Documents, My Pictures, and Recycle Bin are all the same program. It just displays a different name and different attributes, depending on where it is pointed.

Several possibilities:

- Is your count including the subfolders, or just the files actually in the folder you are looking at? Use the properties selection of a right click on a folder to see the subfolder inclusions added in too. Otherwise, you have to add up the subfolder sizes, and then add them to their parent folder sizes.

- The registry takes up space too. But it shouldn't be that big.

- The boot file is not on the folder list.

- Is your drive partitioned? You can see only one partition at a time.

There is no make command in Windows. Each operating system has its own set of keywords. And UNIX has the strangest set of keywords I ever encountered.

From what I have been able to discern from Google, the make command is a programming tool that puts program parts together for UNIX to use it. In Windows, each programming language has its own interface to the user, so you would find something like this as a button on the toolbar of the programmer's user interface window for the language you are using. I would suggest "compile" or some similar word.

I don't use language in the code tags because I don't like the colors it adds. It makes the page harder to read.

I don't like having to wait to get the next search result, after looking at the first one. It's repeating the search when I use the BACK button.

Quoted items don't always work across line breaks in tags. You have styles that take up three lines. Make a stylesheet style for those. You can have line breaks in a stylesheet.

I think I see the problem.

You are using the display attribute in html (not xhtml). This causes some troubles.

One thing that definitely causes trouble with display in html is starting off with a none display. The object is not rendered at the time. Then your script changes the display attribute. This causes a wide range of strange effects that are browser-dependent.

Another thing is that you have the green color in a div. Divs are extremely fluid, and often do what you didn't expect to happen.

How do you know the surrounding styles are not causing problems? Your 300px width is wider in FF than in IE, because surrounding styles are outside that 300px in FF, but inside the 300px in IE.

try applying this style to a div pair inside the table cell. .imlim {width: 25px; height: 25px; overflow: hidden;}

The quotes must be there in XHTML. It must be in the selected="selected" form, not the selected=selected form.

Are you changing the file permissions on the server, so the user has permission to have the file?

It's working for me.