Posts by MidiMagic

It should automatically happen that way.

BUT

If you apply any overall or left margin, border, or padding style to the text in the UL list, or to a containing item, it will cause the automatic indenting to fall apart in most browsers.

Use of

list-style-position: inside;

forces the bullets to be in the paragraph, instead of separate. Use this instead:

list-style-position: outside;

If the width of the two images is wider than the width of the browser window, they will not stay side-by-side.

Also remember that if you have any margins, borders, or padding on the images, they will behave differently in different browsers.

Word does stupid things with web pages.

I use it just to check my speling and grammmer. I make the actual changes in Notepad after seeing what Word says, and then I don't save the Word version.

They are talking about deprecating the name attribute in anchor tags.

Also remember that some servers do not allow certain kinds of downloads.

If you are talking about the vbulletin website, you have to get an account with them first.

I am not certain what you are trying to do.

You gave us a nonclickable url. What do you want to do with it?

Are you collecting the answers, or is the user the only person to see them?

Why are you fussing with scripts? Just include the folder name in the published url:

www.thisismydomain1.com/site1foldername/site1page.htm

www.thisismydomain2.com/site2foldername/site2page.htm

I hope you don't say the same thing to your customers...

I find pages that make things appear, grow, shrink, or move to be extremely hard to read.

These things may seem cutesy or fun, or "show off your JS prowess," but in some people, they cause the same danger-detecting interrupts an approaching car or insect causes. This keeps that person from actually reading your page. It is so annoying that such a person hits his back button to get rid of the motion.

It is why I hated the bumbling tooltips and the moving ads. And the original poster has one on the bottom if his post. Grrrrrr!

Make it so I have to click on something before this menagerie of movement starts. I would much rather click on a thumbnail before it explodes in my face, rather than watch explosion after explosion as I try to move the mouse to a particular icon.

Self-modifying code is bad business.

It is better to set a global variable to the page you want, and request the page in JavaScript according to the variable you set.

Also remember that UNIX variants and VMS define those keys differently.

I mean that you should find out how the Document Object Module (DOM) you are using defines each tag, property, style, and parameter, especially with respect to how the DOM uses uppercase and lowercase in each tag, property, style, and parameter. Then you should type in those tags, properties, styles, and parameters exactly as the DOM defines them.

The days of mixing up uppercase and lowercase are GONE.

The fact that a browser will interpret wrong code "the way I meant it to work" does not mean that other browsers will do so, nor does it mean that the browser will continue to do so in the future.

Parameter passing does not work in the normal way when you use onclick or some other on- call. You can't put a parameter inside the function call parentheses in the way you do in javascript itself.

What I saw was in the function "writeTo". It doesn't matter if the character is inside quotes.

Actually, if you use the cases defined in the DOM, it should always work.

But government can't create wealth.

If the sex laws of the Bible (especially the adultery, promiscuity, and homosexual ones) had been obeyed by everyone, AIDS would not have ever infected more than a few people, and the epidemic would have been over by now.

Butter-pecan ice cream.

I forgot. One of those instructions we invented persisted:

DWIM - Do what I meant.

We also accidentally started the use of FOO and BAR in computing.

We had a UNIVAC card reader that refused to feed the cards without tearing them. I found that a little guide had broken off the hopper weight, causing it to stub against the side and lift off the cards. Cutting a punch card to fit where the guide was supposed to be, and taping it to the top of the weight, I got the card reader to work "long enough to get my job to run."

Because the maintenance man was a former military man, I wrote on the punch card:
"This thing is FUBAR." (Fouled Up Beyond Any Repair - a term he always used), expecting him to get a new one. But it seems that UNIVAC hopper weight cost $500. Little did I know that sign would still be there 3 years later.

Programmers started calling the hopper weight the FUBAR: "Don't forget to put the FUBAR on."

The psychologist who originated the 5 original metasyntactic syllables (FOO BAR ZOT REN TOG) for an experiment also used that computer. In an amazing coincidence, I was a subject in that original experiment (guinea-pig was required for all students in Psychology 101).

Programmers then latched onto the syllables for variable names (psychology was required for computer science students). But somewhere along the line, they substituted …

My favorite PC boot error message (real):

"Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue."

One time, we came up with some fake assembly language instructions for the IBM-360:

BRH - Branch and Hang
EPI - Execute Programmer Immediately
EMW - Emulate Maytag Washer
SDD - Spin Dry Disk
EEV - Emulate Evil
IIB - Ignore Inquiry and Branch
BCF - Branch on Chip box Full (now called chad box)
ESS - Emit Strange Smell
CLS - Console Light-Show
FJD - Frisbee-eJect Disk
BDC - Braid Disk drive Cable
CPF - Cause Power Failure
EM4 - Emulate IBM 407 (A wire-and-plug programmed computer)
SFB - Steal From Bank account
OAS - Overheat and Act Strange
EOC - Electrify Operator's Chair
BYS - Bypass Security
SSC - Start Second Coming

>I do believe that we needed to invade...

Why is that? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

I heard Saddam Hussein say he was going to "continue to send financial support to Al Qaida" on the 60 Minutes interview, 3 months before we invaded. Or at least, that's what the translator said.

I said, "We are going to war again very soon."

jasimp, I agree with you. I just feel slighted when someone attacks John Kerry on his outstanding war record, and not his poor performance as a presidential candidate. After all, this gave us another four years of you know whom.

Actually, you should blame the Plurality Voting System, combined with Ralph Nader's run. Nader siphoned away enough votes to hand Florida and New Hampshire to Bush.

Of course, you could also blame people who actually understand the economy. Kerry's promises would have destroyed the country's economy if he had been elected and allowed to enact them (as will Hillary's promises).

In 2004 he attempted to corrupt the elections by massive fraud both before (donations from illegal sources, etc.) and at the polls (large voter fraud, Kerry supporters voting multiple times with invalid cards, like cards made out to dead people, pets, foreigners, etc.).

I think I saw an example of it.

I was in line to vote, and the guy ahead of me had several IDs. He selected one and pocketed the others. He was dressed like the typical hippie.

Is that a rocket ship in front of your house?

It's Supercar, from the 1961 TV series. That's actually a photo of a small model of it I have, superimposed onto the photo of the house with Corel PhotoPaint.

One time, my ISP sent us a notice forbidding us from sending chain mail through their server.

Funny, but I don't think it would fit.

It is impossible to travel at the speed of light but if you could then your time would be slower than the time around you.

If you could travel at the speed of light, your time would stop. That's why photons don't decay.

Use Notepad.

1. I didn't give a 100% table. binoj_daniel gave the 100% table width.

2. I specified I wanted XHTML 1.0 strict.

3. My style didn't work if you copied it, because I had typos in it. It was a long day, and by the time I noticed them, the stupid edit time limit had expired.

Instead of "left-margin:", it should say "margin-left:"

Instead of "right-mrgin;", it should say "margin-right:"

You have a < character in your script.

You have to have a separate .js file when this happens. Otherwise, HTML parsing begins again at the < character.

Also, anyone can read your code and find out the password. You must use server-side processing (not client-side) for passwords.

Mozilla (FF and NS) REQUIRES all style properties to be in the correct case for the DOM and Doctype used.

IE often allows incorrect case in styles and tags.

You can't expect to use internal representations of things, because they are proprietary.

1. Where are your var declarations?

2. This script can't be inside script tags, because it contains a < character.

HTML takes back control when it sees that character. You must create a separate .js file.

3. Do you know which variables are3 global, and which are local. If you don't declare a variable as being global or local (as defined by where its var statement is) the browser has to guess.

Possibilities:

1. The file is not placed where you are looking for it. Check your reference.

2. The file permissions are not set for public access.

3. Chek yer speling. You might have a case conflict (upper vs lower).

4. The browser is set to not use that combination for security reasons.

5. A firewall is blocking it.

6. The ISP does not allow that combination.

When nuts started breaking into computers.

The ultimate security system: Thumb and blanket.

I write programs, record music, and made my avatar.

Potato chips.

Will using a separate .js file help?

I don't want a table that is 100 percent wide. If I wanted that, I wouldn't need to center it.

I also don't want the rest of the text in the body centered.

I found something that works:

....

<style type="text/css">

.cenx {text-align: center;}
.cent {left-margin: auto; right-mrgin: auto;}

td {text-align: left;} 

</style>

....

<div class="cenx">
  <table class="cent">
    <tr>
      <td>
        .... table contents ....
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>

....

The solution is to generate new content with those pixels removed.

I don't define fixed values.

It's all in the Relativity formulas. The term is "time dilation."

You will not have a different time if you are moving with the same velocity (speed and direction) as the other guy. Now the guy going the other way on the highway is a different story.

And at "ordinary speeds", you won't notice the difference, because it is a difference of less than .000001 mph if you are going 60 mph.

But if the speed gets up to half the speed of light, you will notice a profound difference in the time you see elapsing in the other space (it doesn't matter which space is moving at half the speed of light - the observations are the same). Time in the other space will appear to slow down to .866 of the speed you see time passing at in your own space. A second measured on a watch in the other space will seem to take 1.155 seconds according to your watch.

Objects in the other space will appear to shrink to only .866 of their length in the direction of motion, and their masses will appear to be 1.115 times as heavy.

The interesting part is that an observer in the other space sees YOUR time slow down, your second get longer, your lengths shrink, and your masses increase.

Measurements in atom smashers and in space travel have confirmed these to be real facts.

You have to find out the exact probability of each possible hand, given the actual number of decks you used. There is no "blanket rule" for a hand.

The probability of a hand is the total number of different ways to make that hand (counting substituting an identical card as a different way), divided by the total number of possible hands.

In standard poker, the probability is figured using the combination formula, where the number of ways to draw something is:

C(n,r) = n! / r! / (n-r)!

Where n is the number of objects drawn from, and r is the number of objects drawn.

The probability of drawing 4 of a kind in a standard 5-card poker hand is:

C(4,4) * C(48,1) / C(52,5)

CAUTION:

If you take those cards out of the deck and give them to the player, then the next player does not have the same probability of winning. You have to do the calculations all over again with those cards removed.

The probabilities normally given for poker hands are calculated by assuming that that hand is the only one drawn from the deck.

The cards dealt to other players actually change the probabilities in the middle of the game. In stud poker, the cards you see facing up actually change the probabilities of you completing a certain hand (so do the down cards, but you can't see them).

A way you can do it …

He opposed John Kerry. That was enough.

Wrong forum!

Q: Why did the tech open the computer boxes upside down?

A: Each box was printed with the word "up" in lowercase, and an arrow pointing up. But when you turn the box upside down, you see the word "dn" and an arrow pointing down.

How do I center a table horizontally in an XHTML 1.0 Strict web page.

The only reliable method I have ever found for centering a table uses the deprecated center tags?

In IE, the method used for centering images works, but it also centers the text in all of the table cells.

FF centers the text in the table cells without centering the table itself.

I want the table centered horizontally without centering the text in the table cells, in all browsers.

Remove the second and third line.

"language=" is deprecated.

Check the browser security settings first.

Different spaces moving in different directions and at different relative speeds to each other DO experience different times.

And even more interesting is that people in each space sees time moving slower in the other space that is moving relative to it.

Celebratties?

Spitney Beerrs?