Posts by MidiMagic

The sex laws of the Old Testament were designed to prevent STDs. If everyone had been obeying them, there would never have BEEN an AIDS epidemic.

Rounded corners remind me of pills and drugstores. Yutch!

That's just about the time I noticed it. It might not have anything to do with the servers.

Or maybe the wrong file got copied.

It's working right now.

But I couldn't even reach the site on Sunday.

You might have to do it the way animators do it with clay.

Move it a little, take a screenshot, move it a little, take a screenshot, etc.

If the page won't validate, anything can happen.

An intranet is different. But you didn't say anything about that.

I was thinking of an advertising page where your boss wanted to change the printer settings of every user who accesses the advertising page. That would be illegal cracking

Although a CSS tag which selects landscape for just the one print job is a great idea, provided the printer can actually do landscape. It doesn't permanently change the settings.

If you are doing print to a network printer, you can put this in the settings for the network printer.

I have had too many trials in the past where I had a special printer set up, with special values in the driver registers, and then the application software comes along and resets the printer driver to "standard", destroying the settings necessary to use that printer. Or their reset destroyed the offset of the tractor-feed paper in use.

If you are using BACK button disabling techniques for an intranet, then also disable bots on your server, so Google won't turn up your page on a search.

Anything that changes the HTML file from the original way it loads can cause the interpreter to fail, if the code is not valid. How the extra code is created does not matter.

sorry. i dont understand what you mean. is it not christianity which says "believe as i believe or you will burn in hell!"?

That is a warning, not a demand. But the choice is up to you.

Hollywodd wants you to think they are nuts, so they make Christians look crazy in films and TV shows. But they have an ulterior motive: They want to sin.

@ jbennet

>we do/did the same thing

that is why i think abolishment of religion can only be good. throughout history religion has done little good and a lot of bad.

What do you think every religious person will do to you if you get your way?

The problem is that each group want their religion to be the state religion. There should be no state religions anywhere.

You mean the ones that dont exist ? ;)

Right. They existed only in the memo.

I noticed it on FF 2.0.0.6 when the servers were changed.

What's wrong with square corners?

then wht to use instead marque??

There is no standard html for that. You have to use a script.

The problem is tht the hover attribute is on only the header, not the entire dropdown menu.

They look the same to me, on FF 2.0.0.6.

Maybe it's the difference between how FF and IE handle margins, borders, and padding:

FF puts them outside the measured position and size of a block item.

IE puts them inside the measured position and size of a block item.

If the computer looking at the site does not have a Vietnamese font, you are going to get zxnrbl instead. It will try to substitute the closest thing to it, and that could be anything.

Using utf does not guarantee that all of the characters can be displayed on a particular computer. I checked through my fonts, and found only the following languages:

- English
- Western European
- Spanish
- Scandinavian
- Greek
- Russian
- Arabic
- Japanese phonetic

But your boss can't override internet security, or the law, or the limitations of the hardware attached to the computer.

That choice is the PROPERTY of the user. It belongs to him, because his computer belongs to him. Those settings are permanently part of his computer, not your web page. They are in his printer driver, not part of the browser or the web page. When you make that choice in the browser's FILE menu, you are really talking to the printer driver, and using the printer driver's own dialog box.

Also note that some printer drivers do not HAVE a landscape setting, because the printer can't DO landscape. You can't assume that everyone has a LaserJet or a Lexmark. A relative's computer still has a daisy-wheel printer. The "landscape" mode requires her to physically move the paper guides, put the paper in sideways, and select "landscape 11 X 8.5 paper" from the paper choices. There is no way to just select "landscape" on that computer and have it work.

Your boss can blow his little top off, with steam coming out his ears, but he can't change the law, the rules of internet security, or the limitations of the user's computer hardware. So you should have a camera ready, so you can photograph the steam when he finds these things out.

If you do find a way to do this, you could be violating federal law. And if you were ordered to crack into the …

Just remember that the validator can't validate code created by JavaScript. If an error occurs in a strict doctype due to JavaScript changing the code, the page often will quit working at that point.

I absolutely HATE it when programmers use tricky programming to keep me from leaving their pages.

The way I browse is to Google what I am looking for, then check out each page on the list in turn. When someone keeps me from using my back button, then I lose the rest of my search.

Shouldn't you return a value of true if a box is selected?

Also, you are returning before you check all of the boxes.

Are you editing the code or looking at it with Firefox?

If so, the spellchecker in Firefox or some other program is saying the names of your tools are not in the English language, and wants you to fix the spelling.

The "Back" button belongs to the user, not to you. You have no right to disable it, since it might be the only way the user has to return to the page he came from to get to your page.

I have seen people use such tricks as removing the toolbar or forwarding to a second page. These make me mad at the programmer, because he denies me the opportunity to complete my tree search of a Google request or another website.

Remember that any user can disable JavaScript in his browser controls.

> Also, JavaScript has no way to read server files
Not entirely true. You can read an XML file on the server using the XML DOM API. But this applies for only valid XML files.

Thanks. That's nice to know for future reference.

Please put your code inside [ code ] tags, so the indenting is preserved.

You have JavaScript errors which are stopping execution.

The very first word "Begin" is inside an HTML comment, but it is NOT inside a JavaScript comment. This crashes JS right from the start.

Also, newer browsers ignore EVERYTHING inside the <!-- --> comment tags. JavaScript inside these will not even start on some of the newest browsers. It is better to have an external script file.

Please put your code in [ code ] ... [ /code ] tags when you post (remove the spaces I put in to make them visible). Then the code is more legible.

Useless Nuttiness???

I'm wondering how many other people who didn't know about those "signals" have been arrested.

Now they are looking for an alien with an immense drill. :icon_cheesygrin:

it is impossible for anything with mass to reach the speed of light

That fact is what makes gravity work.

The thing that scares me the most isn't the fact that the nuclear missiles were being flown around like they were, but the complacency and lack of attention that led to them being flown around. Being a veteran of the US Military who actually has experience with nuclear weapons procedures, it simply boggles my mind that such a breakdown in the system could occur. I can guarantee you that many heads will roll for this one...

Probably nobody noticed that the real warheads hadn't been replaced with dummy ones. Dummy warheads are needed for aerodynamics, so the plane flies right.

I still don't like the idea of them scattering uranium or plutonium

Would you rather that the nuclear bomb goes off?

That scattering hasn't ever happened yet.

It's the worst case accident (such as in a fire), where the high explosives do go off. But because the accident does not activate the high explosives in exactly the right sequence, the fissionable material is not compressed to a critical mass. It is scattered instead, because the explosion is lopsided. The affected area is about the size of the area affected by the dust from the use of explosives in surface mining.

Many potential voters get discouraged because there isn't much to pick from.

The main reason voters are discouraged is that they are not allowed to vote the way they want. A voter is discouraged if any of the following happens:

- His candidate couldn't meet the requirements to get on the ballot.
- His candidate was eliminated in the primaries.
- He wants to vote for a political belief instead of a candidate.
- He favors more than one candidate.
- He doesn't like any of the candidates on the ballot.
- There are no candidates on the ballot sharing his political views.
- His political belief was defeated by the inherent bias in Plurality Voting, even though a majority of voters favors it.

The Plurality Voting System (the kind of vote in most US elections) has all of these faults. It has an especially bad fault when more than two candidates run: It favors the candidate most different from the other candidates.

This fault has cost three presidential candidates the Presidency since World War II ended. In each case, a third party candidate siphoned off enough votes from the leading candidate to change the outcome:

1968 George Wallace took votes from Hubert Humphrey, allowing Richard Nixon to win.

Ross Perot took votes from George Bush Sr, allowing Bill Clinton to win.

Ralph Nader took votes from Al Gore, allowing George Bush Jr to win.

The solution …

it was more Bush trying to come up with a good excuse to invade Iraq. he is one of the worst presidents ever.

Oh, come on! Bush isn't a good president, but this lie about him trying to get us into wars has got to stop.

We went into Iraq because Saddam was using a fake memo to smoke out a double agent. He found and killed the double agent, but our intelligence got the memo. It was about a stockpile of weapons of mass destructions. Saddam admitted this was true shortly after he was captured.

The news media haven't publicized this, because they hate President Bush.

when he hears "BING! - Autopilot has encountered an error and needs to close" ;)

Like this?

http://geocities.com/midimagic@sbcglobal.net/mixf5u.htm

Was this the person who cooked the patty, the person who assembled the sandwich, or the cashier?

I haven't had any trouble in several days now.

You broke all of the mistakes!

The choice of portrait or landscape printing belongs to the owner of the computer browsing your page, not to you.

If they can see your js file, they can also read the txt file.

Also, JavaScript has no way to read server files, because it runs on the client computer, not the server.

Reading a file used to be possible, but it is now a security violation.

Hi all,
I have similar problem. App works fine on IE, but FireFox doesn't fire javascript function. When I put checkbox on checked, row should change the color. This is my javascript code:

...
<head runat="server">
    <title>Unos dužnika</title>
    <LINK href="StyleSheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
    <script type="text/javascript">
    //declare global variables
 	function chkSelect_OnClick(tableRowId, 
                   checkBox, rowIndex)
{
    var bgColor;
    bgColor = "#ebeaef";
    if(checkBox.checked == true)
        tableRowId.style.backgroundColor = "#ffffff";
    else
        tableRowId.style.backgroundColor = bgColor;
  
}
    </script>
</head>
...

Could you tell me what is the problem?

- I don't see you CALLING your code. You are loading the code, but not executing it. Maybe your strange syntax is an IE proprietary extension.

- You spelled onclick wrong (it's case sensitive), and placed it in the wrong place. onclick goes in the html tag you want to click on, not in the JavaScript code.

For instance, to call your function chkSelect when the mouse clicks on a certain div or on a certain paragraph, do this:

<html .... >
<head>
....
<script type="type/javascript">
....
function chkSelect(){
....
}
....
</script>
....
</head>
<body>
  ....
  <div onclick="javascript:chkSelect()">
  ....
  </div>
  ....
  <p onclick="javascript:chkSelect()">
  ....
  </p>
  ....
</body>
</html>

Almost any tag can contain an onclick attribute.

The computer can't move mope than one piece at a time. But if you alternately move one piece a little, and then move the other one a little, it looks like both are moving at the same time.

You don't.

A refresh is a complete reload, and everything you did before is usually gone. The choice of what remains is often left to the browser designer, or in some cases, browser settings.

Murphy's law is active:

- Nothing will show the faults in new software like releasing it to the public will.

- If you fix something, the fix breaks something else.

- The fast solution takes more space, the small solution takes more time. The actual solution uses more space and time.

- No matter how careful you are when you write software, someone else will make a change somewhere that makes your code fail.

- The bug is always in the last place you look (hmmmm ... what causes that?).

- The error is always in the part that is most obviously correct.

- The easiest solution is the incompatible one.

- When you finally eliminate the last bug, the power fails, and you lose your change. By the time the power comes back on, you forget what you did.

- There is no such thing as "the last bug."

- The software that fixes all the bugs is too big to fit on the server's hard drive.

- Hitting your head on the table doesn't fix the error.

It's fun to laugh at our trubbles.

It blued out for me again, see attached. My post wasn't showing blue until you started it all over again =P.

I haven't seen this blue at all in Firefox.

Something is bloo-ey.

Since it involves busted span tags, maybe we should call this bloo problem "span spam."
:icon_mrgreen:

Oh I forgot to mention, I fixed the problem (I think) yesterday but it only applies to new posts. Testing testing ...

<a href="

std::string hello( "hi

It did it only on the last two lines, and then only if the last line was empty.

These are OK.

I didn't say they were served by doubleclick. I was using my former trials with doubleclick as an example.

And if doubleclick has really resolved its problems, so much the better.

I have nothing against advertising, except when it makes everything else quit working (including my vision).

It's simple.

The flow of time at the speed of light causes gravity, because otherwise, parts of elementary particles would exceed the speed of light as they spin and also move through time. So matter lags behind, distorting the space around it.

Because the gravity so created distorts space in the time dimension, it makes time take longer. We can't see the time dimension, because it is Lorentz-contracted to zero length.

Maybe the void is in Minnesota instead.

:icon_mrgreen:

Boss: "Why are you throwing away half of the nails?"

Worker: "The heads are on the wrong end."

Boss" "Idiot! Those are for the other side of the house!"