Posts by MidiMagic

Poof! And he's gone!

Insanity: Microsoft changing the operating system and programs every three years.

Can we get this fixed? Or do I have to modify my Windows screen preferences to see it?

You are asking for trouble. Consider the following:

- Browsers have different-sized windows, depending on the user's preferences and the screen resolution used.

- Some people can't read text superimposed on a textured or photographic background.

- map or ismap tags must be used to define clickable areas. This makes it difficult to make pages that work independently of the browser window size.

You should still be having trouble. Frames are deprecated in XHTML, which is the doctype you chose.

Frames are deprecated.

XHTML does not support them.

Future browsers will not support them.

DON'T put text on top of a textured or photo background. Many people have a very hard time reading it.

Lucida Sans Typewriter

Other favorites:

Arial
Tahoma
Helvetica

Least favorite:

Times New Roman

I can't stand serif fonts. They are extremely hard to read.

I also don't like kerned fonts.

It might be that opacity / filter code interacting with your selected screen resolution.

Some LCD displays flicker at some resolutions.

They use one common external style sheet for all of their web pages. All they have to do is change the style sheet, and the whole look of the site changes.

You don't have a class named para1, you have an id named para1.

Put a period in front of an identifier to define a class.

Put a pound sign in front of an identifier to define an id.

You can't use an id, because only one tag in your web page can use a given id.

Why does everyone want to change the look of a link? It should be standard.

JS can't make any sense of the stuff inside the % while tag, because:

- It is dynamically created at runtime, but not by JS.

- You have multiple occurrences of the same id as the while repeats. This is not allowed.

hey guys, same problem, no solution, as for the "assume you've got the latest pc" my pc is spankin... 8800gts, 2GB low latency ram... yada yada yada... all the twizzles.

the problem is this, youtube is the main culprit i've seen, the videos load for two seconds, wait for a minute thirty seconds, load another two seconds, wait for another minute... it's rediculous. it's not download speeds, because i could open a new tab with another video, and have it play no problem... and i do mean that, it will play without the need to buffer... i'm on 1 meg,and it's slow at the best of times, but i've heard of people in my area on 8meg, with the same problem... loading two seconds, loading two seconds...

youtube dont seem to want to know, and it's not in any FAQ's.

it's always exactly 2 seconds. and if i come back tomorrow, the same video may not be affected. 'm getting only aprox a 45% hit rate with the video's i want to watch, (on youtube)

other websites are not affected.
i've heard reports of people finding faults on ISP's AOL VIRGIN, TISCALI,
I.E, firefox, and AOL, browsers.

if anyone has the fix... POST POST POST!!!

This is not youtube, because others don't have the trouble.

Check your internet cache size. If it is smaller than the video, the video will be presented in spurts.

It also might be your ISP that is limiting the packet size …

Excel 2003

I have to reply because I can't edit, due to the upidstay time limit.

I found an error in question 20. That second Nicaragua was supposed to say Guatemala.

Post your tries now. I will post the answers in a few days.

The thing I always hear is that Christmas marketing starts "too early." But look at everything they sell in stores nowdays. If you don't buy seasonal items 3 months before the season starts, you can't get them.

Just try to get winter boots or gloves in January, when you discover that yours fell apart in the closet over the summer. They are having the clearance sales for those now, to make room for the swimsuits for Spring Break.

It's not just Christmas. All of marketing is three months ahead of the actual season.

I did see one bright product this year: Solar powered Christmas lights.

I personally do not like Christmas and the whole "tradition of giving". The way i see it is everyone buys presents for each other. You buy someone something. They buy you something. The only person who comes out on top is the person that sold you those things.

I do however like getting time off work.

What about the people who WORK for the people who sold you stuff? They get paid too, as do the factory workers who made the stuff. And some people who are out of work can get temporary jobs during this period.

Get rid of the new ones. I can't tell one expression from another on those. The old ones are standard webwide, and make sense.

Smilies are supposed to be M&M shaped, not spherical.

You can't do it with just HTML and JavaScript, because they run on the user's computer. You need a script that runs on your website's server to achieve this.

What do these divs contain. Depending on the content, there may be other ways to do this.

IE does not render "wasted" tags (tags without actual content).

Stick a br tag inside it.

The CSS is downloaded too if you use the SAVE PAGE AS menu item on your browser. So is the JS.

Publishing the page while wanting to hide the code sounds like an oxymoron.

Can someone at least explain the "Can't Edit a Table" error?

The message is actually: "Can't change part of a table."

Security solutions:

1. Mail a blanket to all people who want security instead of freedom.

2. Abolish all man-made systems of identification.

3. Stop trying to keep track of every person in the country.

You forgot two:

1. Remove half of government. It causes more stress than anything else.

2. Do not change your clocks for Daylight-Stupid Time.

PS3 - wasn't that an IBM PC model in the late 1980s?

My list: Digital camera, Apples to Apples Bible Edition, socks.

They don't ask you. They require you to register.

I didn't find out - I wouldn't register with their site.

CRUMMY!

No I'm just confused about which infractions are being referred to. Why am I picky? Is the post even directed at me?

No.

It was directed at people who get hyperupset at newbies.

The bar is gone.

What did you expect? DST itself is a kludge.

You must render the div you want on top last. This means that the div to be on top must be inside the other div in the HTML file.

HTML is not normally supposed to place objects on top of each other. Objects are normally supposed to have their own places on the page without overlap.

If the file is used to render a website, it can't be hidden from the user. The browser needs the source code itself to do the rendering, and so it can always display it to the user.

There is no binary file in HTML as there is with other programming languages.

You can make some files private, but that means that nobody except you can access the files. They can't be used to render a web page on someone else's computer..

Since most HTML code is a straightforward solution to the wanted layout, there is probably no intellectual property in the source code anyway.

I wish people would abandon using hover for things. It's annoying:

- It is not accessible, because it won't work with readers for the blind. It also causes trouble with dyslexia.

- Too often the image expansion from one link covers the link the user really wants.

Please use onclick instead of onhover.

One other possibility is that the host has its own stylesheet that controls some of these features.

Marquee is a nonstandard IE extension to HTML. It is not universally available, and it is deprecated.

Null is a pointer that doesn't point to anything.

There is one way to capture the image of a web page, provided that all of it fits in your browser window.

- Hold down CTRL and press Print Screen.
- Open MS Paint and paste the image into the window.
- Cut out the part of the image that is not the browser controls.
- Select File / New
- Paste the cut out part in the window.
- Save the result as the file type you want.

Can someone at least explain the "Can't Edit a Table" error?

The security setting usually causing the block is of the form "disallow content from multiple sites."

I see a spelling error in the name of the third checkbox.

I have one question.. Your code can get the height of div, which is not set as 'Display:none' by CSS styles.. I have a problem.. I need to get the size (height) of DIV object, which is normaly not displayed (means, that has style defintion is: display:none).. If I'll change the CSS to 'display:block' it works, but I have Implicit value of CSS styles for my DIV 'display:none'..

Do you have any solution?

Sorry about the english, I am from Slovakia :)

lubo

The height value you want does not exist until the div is actually rendered on the display.

yeah veterans day is on the same day its kind of a combined thing.

Ours is getting like that now as theres only 1 guy left from word war one, so there shifting the focus to the other wars

I remember when Armistice Day was changed to Veteran's Day. People wanted to make V-E Day and V-J Day (ends of the two parts of World War II) into federal holidays too. Businesses complained that there would be too many days off work in a year. So they decided to make Memorial Day (originally Decoration Day - the end of the Civil War) the day to honor those who died in all wars, and Veteran's Day (Originally Armistice Day - the end of World War I) the day to honor all former servicemen.

Later some clowns in Washington decided to make Memorial day a Monday holiday, instead of May 30. Before that, only Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Easter were always on the same day of the week. They also combined Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday into President's Day, on monday, and moved Columbus Day to monday.

in america a democrat is a political party, not a type of government. And No, the USA is not a democracy but is a republic. There are no true democracies anywhere in the world. A republican is also a political party. The terms liberal and conservative are also used to mean democrats and republications -- why I have no idea, its a little confusing to many of us too.

Let me clear it up:

- Liberals are liberal in that they want to use the power of government to do more things, taxing and spending more to do them.

- Conservatives are conservatives because the want to use government power sparingly, believing that government does more harm than good.

I don't know what to call the current group of Republicans, because they don't act conservative anymore.

And the Democrat party is not very democratic - they believe that party officials, rather than the voters, should choose the candidates to run in the general election.

Some Democrats also use the fact that they lost the election as evidence that the election was tampered with. They can't believe that a majority would disagree with them.

Midi, There are so many different readings of different bibles, it might help if we knew what the laws against "adultery, promiscuity, and homesexual one" to which you refer. In truth if all laws in the bible were obeyed by everyone, there would probably be a lot of stone throwing and sandel tossing. Just wondering

You have to read each different Bible versions according to the language that was in use by the public at the time that particular version was created. One of the biggest mistakes is to read the King James version using word meanings that did not yet exist in 1610.

Language changes over time, as people find new uses for words. Look at these words, all of which got new meanings in the 20th century:

bank, battery, comic, cassette, cloverleaf, computer, curb, dossier, environment, drive, gay, hang, hello, hit, housing, interchange, jet, medium, missile, overtime, plane, pot, rod, stop, tank, tap, transmission, truck, waste, welfare

Are you aware that, before the telephone, "hello" was a Norse war cry and sort of a mild swear word? This changed because the first telephones didn't have any bells. People started yelling though telephones to get the attention of the person on the other end (the phones didn't hang up either). The two most common words used were "ahoy" and "hello", although some people blew horns into the phone. "Hello" won out, and it continued to be used after telephones had bells. This changed that word from …

A stupid-seeking missile?

What we need is a law like the one for auto parts: Require computer companies to provide service for their products for 10 years.

How do you find out the correct answers? If you don't think of it, they don't tell you.

Ghosts were an invention of Shakespear and popularized by Hollywood. I'm not saying there is nothing beyond death, just that there is no such thing as ghosts.

Shakespeare did not invent ghosts. Check out these Bible verses:

I Samuel 28
Matthew 14:26
Luke 24:37-43

It IS on.