Posts by MidiMagic

Unmean yourself to use IE. :icon_biggrin:

Note that there are several settings for different kinds of text. You might have to change a setting for monospace fonts.

It might also be that a font size is specified in the page.

The unformattable medium is CD-R.

They probably stuck something in the file to stop an ipod from copying the whole file.

It still says SP2.

My computer was OK this morning. I am running Windows XP.

When I started it up after coming home from work, all kinds of things were changed:

- The display theme changed from Windows Classic to Windows XP.
- My wallpaper selection is gone.
- The color scheme I carefully crafted is gone.
- My selection of the color of the scrollbars is gone, and it is impossible to change scrollbar color now.
- My desktop color selection was changed, and the color I had before is not on the list of available colors.
- Firefox was no longer my default browser.
- Microsoft installed an update without waiting for me to OK the installation.

why do prodestants believe in the bible so strongly when it was a) written hundreds of years afrer it all supposedly happened b) isnt the whole story as books which contradicted eachoteher were not included

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 they happened, or shortly after they happened.

What happened hundreds of years after the events happened was translation into current languages. This must be redone every 50 years or so, because the current language in use by people today undergoes changes.

Most of those books people think are alternate versions of the events are storylines for stage plays written in the second century by Greek playwrights. They were never intended to be accurate versions of the events. But those intent on discrediting the Bible try to persuade others that they were written as fact.

If you want to understand why people strongly believe in the Bible today, try opening your mind up to the possibility that God does exist, and that He is actively working through the people who believe. John 14 and 16 show how this is done.

It also depends on who made the cartoons.

I like nearly all of the WB cartoons. But I am sad to learn that my most favorite of the WB cartoons ("Hare-um Scare-um") no longer exists.

The early Hanna-Barbera cartoons were good, but the later ones were mass-produced. They were too repetitive and the jokes were stale.

Terrytoons were quite good.

Harveytoons were much more violent, with characters often torn in half.

Disney's best were made before 1970.

I don't want ANY of the remaining candidates. All of them are promising things that will make basic living expenses cost even more.

Our economic problems are caused by too much government.

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 buttons are nicer with tables keeping them in line.

If you need columns, and need them to all be the same height, use tables.

Use css instead of tables where tables were wrongly used to create stuff that is not tabular in nature.

Web designers used to use tables to create margins, borders, padding, and other formatting functions that were originally not provided in HTML. These are the only tables that should be changed to pure css.

Please don't! I am totally sick of this kind of page. They make me hit the BACK button.

Name is deprecated. Use ID.

You have a scoping problem. You are using the names in onmouseover and onmouseout attributes outside the area where those names are defined. You need external scripts

And I am totally sick of websites that make pictures larger when the mouse goes over them. Just leave them large!

There is NO way to exactly fill a screen vertically that works on all browsers, screen resolutions, and viewport sizes.

- It's impossible to make a page that fits perfectly in the vertical direction on all monitors.

- It is impossible to place anything against the bottom edge of the screen.

The Internet is not designed to work that way. It is designed to expand pages downward as much as is necessary to fit the entire content served. Screen height and the bottom edge of the screen are undefined in Internet protocols.

You can choose among these possibilities:

1. Design your page for one screen resolution, and accept the fact that people with other screen resolutions are going to see either scroll bars or a smaller page in the upper left corner.

2. Design your page for the lowest resolution, and let the remainder of the screen be blank if a higher resolution monitor displays it.

3. Design your page to fit against the top of the screen, and expand to fit the width (which does work). Use a repeating background image to fill the rest of the screen downward.

4. You could try to wrestle with JavaScript functions intended to find the screen height. But they are not standardized across browsers, and are totally undefined on many browsers.

5. You could create an image containing the entire page, and then choose a display that fits the image to the window …

Use the onclick option on a web page object to call a JS function that sets the checked value to true.

The problem is greedy web advertising with moving pictures that takes the entire CPU time. By the time you get the task manager open, the ad has quit.

What burner software are you using? Windows can't do it by itself.

We have Deep Freeze on our desktops. If the computer is rebooted, or if it sits idle for two hours, everything students put on it is removed, and the computer is restored to standard configuration.

CDRW disks don't work like other media. They have to be erased backwards and recorded forwards, like recording tape.

A bare CDRW can't be used like other media. It must be used with CD burner software, such as EZ Creator.

Formatted CDRW can be used with drag and drop, but such a disk works only with the drag and drop software used, and can't be read on other machines.

Also realize that Works is so old that it has no idea what a writable CD or a flash drive is.

Speeding up your work:

- It might be better to have two computers sitting side by side, and have half of those processes on each computer.

- The more processes you have running, the slower each one runs. Plus, the time taken to switch between them is longer.

- A connection to the Internet uses time even if no windows using the Internet are open. Use one computer without any network connections for development, and another to access the Internet.

- Everything you have in your system tray (the program icons on the right end of the taskbar) is using up processor time. Have as few icons there as possible.

- Remember that, although it looks like the computer is doing multiple tasks at once, it is really running only one of the programs at any instant in time. It switches from one program to another every 55 milliseconds. Also remember that Windows takes time to do its mousekeeping.

- Don't set reminders and alarms. They steal CPU time. Use an alarm clock, a wall calendar, or a kitchen timer for that.

- When a video is playing or a disk is being burned, you should have no other windows open. This is because of the next item:

- Remember that there are TWO throughput issues when you are dealing with real-time events. One is the total amount of time it takes to do the job. The other is that real-time events …

Divs are implemented poorly. They usually will not expand larger than their own contents.

This might be one of the cases where table works better than div. Table forces all of the columns to be the same height.

The use of table is not deprecated. What is being discouraged is using table to create margins and padding.

Aural css was never implemented enough to be used, and is now deprecated.

If government keeps demanding higher and higher taxes, no profession will be safe.

You don't have enough cache memory if that happens. This is a browser setting, not something you can control in a program.

If the entire page won't fit in the unused cache space, the browser will dump the entire cache to make room for the new page. It does not first check to see if content is the same.

Generally you can't control the vertical height of a screen object to match the size of the browser window. This is because there are too many possibilities among different browsers and window sizes.

Div is also very poorly designed and implemented. It generally assumes the height of the tallest object inside it.

You can't use getElementById to access elements added by a script. It can see only the original ID list present at the time the page loads.

This is not available in Word.

I would suggest some kind of posting software (like this forum) with no possibility of editing the posts. Then have a trusted person compile the posts into a document.

Aren't you forgetting something ? There is one more thing to that list.. People who wants to disable right click, change the color of the scrollbar, etc ?

Condense that to:

People who want to take over control of other people's computers.

Here are mine:

Watermarks in the reply box. Put that message OUTSIDE the box. It is maddening to the mildly dyslexic, because it makes the text impossible to read once it is typed.

The reply box clearing when I navigate away to get something to paste in there.

The insertion point disappearing from the reply box.

Ads taking over the browser, preventing scrolling until the ad shuts up. This is usually an ad that uses 100 percent CPU time.

Ads causing the browser to scroll to the ad (and away from the reply window) during a post.

IntelliTXT ads - maddening to the mildly dyslexic. Not accessible. That includes that BOOKMARKS button. The movement causes the visual cortex image to refresh, emptying the mental equivalent of a text buffer.

Hover tooltips - maddening to the mildly dyslexic. Not accessible, as above. Let us turn it off if it is pesky.

Flash-based ads - Moving ads are maddening to the mildly dyslexic. Not accessible.

Use of overloaded ad servers, slowing the loading of a page or preventing it from completing.

Too much advertising is not the problem. Intrusive advertising is the problem. When ads take over the computer, it's intrusive.

People who give negative reputations to others who disagree with their political beliefs.

Text that won't wrap in the code sections (it goes under the sidebar).

The inactivity timeout is too short, as is the time allowed to …

We need a way to make a poll that uses Independent Voting, as opposed th the faulty Plurality system used now.

Let us choose with a setting.

First, you need to know how a horse walks. That in itself is a huge task.

My findings:

- Write your own pages. Don't use their stuff. It writes tag soup.

- Any page served by a Yahoo or Geocities server will NOT validate as served, because their ad insertions won't validate. Their ad insertions are also tag soup. And they are more concerned with keeping people from defeating the ads than with proper coding.

You also need a server that supports and permits serving streamed music.

Use styles instead of center or align=center.

Are you trying to put the icon on a link to a web page, or download the icon to the user's computer?

To use the icon as a button to link to a website, do this:

<a href="website.htm"><img src="pic.ico" /></a>

It's not the content, but the surrounding styles that causes FF to change the table sizes.

If you have a two-column table in FF and have surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) on the td or tr, then setting the width of both columns to 50 percent makes the table too wide for the window. This is because you have each td at 50 percent, PLUS the sizes of the surrounding styles.

This is w3c standard. IE does this wrong.

The trick is to set these styles to 0 in the td style definition, and put a div inside the td, with the surrounding styles you want on the div. Then it works the same in both browsers, and the 50 percent is reaslly 50 percent.

Unfortunately, the div tag is not implemented very well yet. This is a case where a table is needed.

It's no simple task. A server-side program would have to do this.

Just beware. Those tools often make horrible blunders.

Upper case is also not allowed in tag, style, and attribute names and values. Replace Color with color.

That won't validate - it's tag soup.

The anchor tag is an inline tag, and you can't put a block tag pair inside an inline tag pair. Div is a block tag.

You can't put box properties on inline tags either.

Put the anchor inside the div instead, and attach the box properties to the div.

You don't change the colors of the scrollbar. That belongs to the user, not to you. The setting is in the Control Panel / Display / Appearance.

IE has a nonstandard way of changing this. It doesn't work in other browsers.

Use the Error Console under Tools in Firefox.

Use the W3C Validator to check your code.

http://validator.w3.org/

Note that using # in a url causes the page to open at that named anchor.

Careful. Putting size styles (width, height) and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same style or tag causes IE/FF incompatibilities.

Nest two divs, ome with the sizes, and the other with the surrounding styles.

Use the OLE type to display an image. You can put a one pixel image in for a nonimage question if the process needs an image. Create an image of the equation using Word and Ctrl-PrintScreen. Paste the clipboard into MS paint (in the Accessories folder in Programs).

If you have Access, you have Word. But you might have to install the equation extension, if it wasn't installed when you installed Word. It's on your Office disks.

Try asking if the field equals "".

You can also use the lookup wizard, which is a lot easier. It is a type in the Access table design view. But first, you must create a relationship between the tables.

You will have trouble with IE, because it won't update the screen until the script stops running, or an alert appears.

HTML can't do that. It can't do anything but display web pages. The only way it can display a graph is if the graph is in an image file. Why do you want HTML?

You need Microsoft Office instead. Excel contains all you need. Excel can also save an HTML version of the spreadsheet. But it would be much better to have an internal server serve real Excel pages.

Other programs that can graph are Visual Basic and Java. But you have to know programming to use them.

Options.

What did you just install that runs all the time?

When you burn CDs, you should have no other programs running. Close all other open windows, and turn off reminder alarms.

The only things in your system tray should be your virus checker and maybe a printer driver. If you have many programs self-starting when you boot, your CD burn will be interrupted and ruined.

Make sure your taskbar is empty too, except for the burning software.