Posts by MidiMagic

Display has the attribute 'hidden', not 'none'.

This is a security violation.

It is normally a security violation for any web page (origin known or unknown) to mess with the file system on the browser's computer without permission of the owner of that computer.

If IE permits it, it is foolish to use IE.

Go into your browser settings and disable JavaScript.

Or copy the html file and edit out the code in the copy.

Your ISP may be either prohibiting attachments, or configured by a setting in your user preferences to prohibit them.

This is a setting on what to do with read mail. It is under Options in the Tools menu.

It could also be that a spam filter is thinking the emails are spam and taking care of them as such.

The screen tips on the topics are too fast. Let us either disable them, or choose the speed.

The moving ads are making the text-insertion cursors disappear again.

This is a proper use of tables.

Tables are not deprecated. What W3C wanted to stop the wrong use of tables for is using them to create margins, borders, or padding (which was done by web authors before those styles existed).

Uppercase characters for tags, styles, and attributes are definitely deprecated in xhtml. But some browsers are failing to recognize some styles and attributes in html.

There is still the incompatibility between IE and other browsers that results when you put size styles (width, height) in the same tag or style that has nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding). IE nexts the surrounding styles inside the sizes, the other browsers nest the sizes inside the surrounding styles.

Note that browser accessibility settings allow users to turn off changes to link colors.

So make sure that your links will show up if someone turns off link color changes. If you make the link white and the background blue, the links disappear on browsers with link color changes disabled.

The best policy is to not change link colors.

Several tips:

1. Don't use size styles (width, height) in the same tag or style that contains nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding). This is guaranteed to make IE render the page differently than other browsers. If both are needed, nest tags in the order you want them nested.

2. To center text, apply this style to the text, or to an overall div:

.cenx {text-align: center;}

3. to center anything except text or an image, use the style:

.ceno {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; clear: both;}

4. To center an image in its container, use the styles:

.ceni {clear: both; padding: 12px;} /* put your padding for the image here */
.cenx {text-align: center;}
.fxbx {margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0;}

Here is the code to center the image:

<div class="cenx fxbx">
  <img src="file.jpg" alt="pic" class="ceni" />
</div>

The text-align is necessary to get IE to work right. You can also put a title over or under the image and it will center with the image.

You can also use the fxbx style (fix the box) to create the 0 size surrounding styles for the problem in number 1 above.

5. If you use tables, you must set the vertical-align and text-align styles explicitly for the td and th tags, because IE behaves differently from other browsers here too.

6. Be aware that IE renders fonts thicker than other browsers do.

There is a BIG problem with making links anything other than standard colors: accessibility.

There are settings in browsers that disable the ability to change link colors on web pages. So some people get cute with the links, and the link disappears entirely on a browser with link color disabled, because it matches the background.

Don't change the link colors.

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.

Your moving picture is using all CPU time, leaving none for other functions.

You have to put the link in <a> tags. A style can't have a link.

Or are you wanting the link to the style sheet. It goes in the style tag in the head section.

Note that browsers can switch off color changes for links with user settings.

Empty tag pairs are not allowed. Different browsers waste them in different ways.

Use styles to create blank spaces, instead of p tags with nonbreaking spaces inside.

Several errors:

- 0px is not a valid style. use 0 for all zero values, with no unit of measure. 0 with a unit of measure makes a Firefox error. It creates a value which is not 0 instead.

- Don't put size styles (width, height) and nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same style or tag. It won't work right, making incompatibilities in browsers. IE crams the surrounding styles INSIDE the width, Firefox and other standards-complying browsers put the surrounding styles OUTSIDE the width. If you need both, nest a tag with one kind inside a tag with the other kind.

- Use percentages for widths, instead of pixels or points.

You can't call a function that is below the function you call it from. Move endSlide up above slidetick.

You do not understand how the Internet works. If they can see it, they have already downloaded it.

It has to be downloaded before they can see it. So the image is ALREADY on their computer by the time they can see it. They can then copy it by any of these methods:

- Right-click on the image and save it.

- Find the file in the cache and copy it.

- Find the file in the internet temporary files folder and copy it.

- Use ctrl-printscreen to put the image on the clipboard. Then paste it into MS-Paint.

- Switching off JavaScript in the browser prevents you from running scripts on their computers anyway.

If you don't want people copying your pictures, don't post them on a website.

You could put a thumbnail on the page, and download the full picture only if the person is logged in, but that requires a server-side script.

One script can't see new objects another script creates. It sees only the original document structure at the time the page opened.

To start with, you can't put script tags inside script tags. You can't put ANY tags inside script tags. It's better to use an external .js file.

CAPITAL letters are deprecated in tag, attribute, and styles. Newer browsers are case-sensitive, and they recognize only the lowercase versions of defined tag, attribute, and style names. <style> works, but <STYLE> does not.

0px is not a valid style. Use 0 for all values with a zero value. 0 with a unit of measure attached causes errors in Firefox.

Tangled tags prevent the DOM addressing of JavaScript from working right. You have tangled tags, with the table tag pair beginning inside the form tag pair, but ending outside the form tag pair, like this:

<form>
  <table>
  </form>
</table>

You must next tag pairs for them to work properly. Tag pairs must be entirely inside other tag pairs, or entirely outside them, like this:

<form>
  <table>
  </table>
</form>

Put both table tags inside the form tags.

The marquee tag is a nonstandard addition that works only in Internet Explorer. It is not cross-browser compatible. Don't use it.

I don't see any calls to the js functions. They don't run themselves. The one script in the body runs ONCE when the page loads, before anyone can click buttons.

Your finish test button should have an onclick feature to call your js.

You have to use a for loop to poll all of the radio buttons to …

The back button belongs to the user, NOT TO YOU. It is not yours to disable.

I am getting tired of people who want to own take over other people's computers for their own selfish purposes (usually sales or advertising). Right now, I can't see the text insertion cursor, because some ad company has a picture of Saturn with moving moons on the screen.

And I am particularly tired of people who want to keep me from returning to the page I came to their site from. I have several times taken a side chain during a search, only to find out that my main search was destroyed by some clown erasing my history.

DON'T!!!!!!

It makes people very mad at you.

It means Microsoft is greedy. It wants to make sure your product is genuine, so you have to register with them.

If you downloaded it from Microsoft, they should have given you the key in some way. Note: have you confused a number 0 with a letter O or o, or a number 1 with a letter I or l?

I never heard of them downloading it. Usually you have to purchase CDs.

If you got it from someone else, you may have been rooked.

This kind of software-keyed system should be outlawed.

The driver might be compatible, but the software to control and use the camera might not be.

Take it as a rule of thumb that most software that needs real-time operation will not survive a changeover to Microsoft's next operating system, unless multiple version compatibility files are sold in the package.

This kind of garbage should be banned.

Don't buy software with such protection.

There should be a link visible to only the original poster just above the quick reply window.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1

Note that this is not so much that the uppercase versions of tags are deprecated as it is that the new browsers are case-sensitive, and the tags are defined to be lowercase. But the effect is the same.

To avoid trouble with incompatibilities between FF and IE, don't put width or height in the same style as margin, border, or padding.

IE renders them in the opposite nesting order to that used by the standard (and other browsers).

Instead, nest two tags, one with the width or height, and the other with the3 margin, border, and/or padding.

Moving image players don't like to be under other things.

This might be a screen resolution error. In other words, if the content won't fit in the page width, the div repositions where it fits.

Absolute positioning is also a cause of page mutilation when the screen resolution changes..

You have to call a function in the script from the body of the page for it to execute. Otherwise, it just sits there.

I hope the voting server can take the Independent Voting System (yes/no/abstain on each choice, score is yes minus no). The standard way people vote in elections is mathematically flawed.

Use the "Save as web page" option in the File menu.

Notice that html can't access a spreadsheet on your computer. You have to upload the changed web page after any changes to the spreadsheet.

Are you talking about Excel or Access?

You can add a comment to an Excel cell.

Any software that removes other software is greedy, and belongs in the trash can.

This is a setting in the Options dialog box.

Most real-time software has to be rewritten to work with new versions of operating systems.

What OS is the game specified to run on?

So what would you suggest, Midi so 100% of the people can use the files? Instead of only 99%...

Don't compress files unless you have to. The file I wanted to open was only 5 K.

Most modern operating systems have built in zip functionality (yes, even *nix OSs), not to mention the vast amounts of free unzipping software freely available on the web. If you can't open zips, you're either incompetent or you're using a stone age OS which isn't supported anymore. Sorry to be so blunt, but maybe you should just figure it out yourself and stop complaining.

There are two different reasons I can't use zip files on the two different computers I use:

- At work, it has been DISABLED by the college sysops. Someone once opened a zip file with a virus inside, and the virus was spread to many computers from the college IT system. This resulted in hundreds of lawsuits, so their lawyers went into panic mode, and the board of trustees ordered the IT people to remove the capability.

- At home, one compressed file format the unzip software responds to has the same file extension that a piece of music recording software I have uses for music encoding files. I had to uninstall the zip application from Windows to keep it from destroying the music files.

This is the kind of "expanding" ad I reported several months ago as covering up the nav buttons. It doesn't really pop up. It appears in the provided space, and then gets bigger.

Moving images usually can't be in the background. The player for a moving image will usually place itself on top.

This problem usually occurs when an image is changed between a palleted form and a non-paletted form. The conversion software does not know how to handle shadings made by alternating paletted pixel colors.

Note that stacking stuff on top of each other is not yet perfected.

Part of the problem is that some movie players automatically put themselves on top of everything else when they are running. This hides the button if you try to put it on top of the movie.

Can you put the player inside the anchor tags, instead of trying to stack a button on top of a player?

MidiMagic, I think, well actually, I know each of the above comments are incorrect. I've used 0px for styles on all the websites I've built and likewise, I've used margin, padding and borders in a single stylesheet element for a lot of those sites.

All my websites validate to W3C HTML 4.01 strict and CSS standards with 0 errors or warnings. So, if 0px is an invalid style, it would have been picked up. Likewise, I am pleased to say that my websites using these stylesheets are pixel perfect between FFX2, FFX3, IE6, IE7, Netscape, Opera and Safari.

Just some food for thought.

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 works, but in quirks mode.

But note that I use XHTML 1.0 Strict. This might be a deprecation in XHTML, but it is not caught by the W3C validator.

I use 4 tests on each page I produce or refurbish:

- Spellcheck

- W3C validation

- Browser rendering correctness and differences between browsers

- Firefox Error Console

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You misread the part about the margins, borders, and padding. What does not work right is putting size styles (width, height) in the SAME tag that has nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding). Nest two tags if you need both kinds of styles.

This second item …

INFO:

- Google ranks sites according to number of visits from Google. This is the order it places the links in on the search results pages. But the ranking also depends on how well the site matches the exact search the user typed in.

- Most engines now ignore meta content, because too many people abused it.

- Some engines look for changes. I think that is as unfair as meta packing.

- If there are two thousand sites with the same kind of content, the user would have to match your title to see your site first. So choose titles carefully.

- The best way is to make sure you have the info the people want.

This is mainly slight differences in rendering that you can't control. Notice that IE renders each font character one pixel wider than FF does. They also have different default paddings around characters.

The real problem is that you can't put size styles (width, height) and nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border. padding) on the same tag. IE renders them in the opposite nesting order to the standard order used by FF and other browsers.

Horizontal centering is easy, if you don't have size styles (height, width) and nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) applied to the same tag. Nest two tags if you need both.

The Internet is not designed for vertical centering. Web pages are designed to expand downward when they need more room. Add in different screen resolutions and window sizes (The browser might be restored down - and don't forget Web TV's 320x192 pixel screen), and the impossibility of vertical centering is quite evident.

Note that many email browsers, and some ISPs, are set to disallow html for security purposes. So don't expect everyone to be able to see it.

Do your images together make a size larger than your IE browser cache setting? Try trading the images, and see if the other one displays instead.

If your image is larger than the selected number of pixels in the tag, it won't display.

Also note that using uppercase letters in tag names is deprecated. This puts the browser into quirks mode.