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Re: Strange Javascript results

There is an error in my post. The calling program actually returns:

return 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4, ,,,, 1,2,3,4
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Re: New Smileys

Why is my favorite smiley, made from a : and a D, now this nasty :D?

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Re: Speed Improvement?

Also, from what you folks have been telling me, the slowness problem has existed for awhile, and we first started using DoubleClick about a week and a half ago.

I have been seeing it here for months. If you weren't using it, your advertisers were.

DON'T use it. It is always oversubscribed.

If there were a way to phaser it into oblivion, I would do it.:)

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Re: XP renames my files

With DOS, writing to the same filename caused automatic replacement. With Windows 95 and later, such an action will create a new file. You have to explicitely delete the old file before opening the replacement file to prevent renaming.

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Re: Internet

First you have to find out what is slowing it down (if anything):

- Your connection speed can be improved only by paying for a better service.

- Nothing can make an ad load faster. The bottleneck is often the ad server itself. But blocking the ad (if you can) can speed page loading.

- If you have a compressed hard drive, it will make page loading slower.

- Nothing you do can speed up the server on the other end.

- Using during off-peak periods helps. But be aware that many sites do their backup cycles during the hours of 2 am to 6 am. They could have periods of downtime during that.

- Tricky software to increase speed doesn't work.

- If the graphics have to be resampled to fit the screen resolution, it takes longer. I found that a 640 X 480 screen loaded much slower than a 1152 X 864 screen, because the images had to be resampled to be displayed

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Re: shivam

I don't understand your question. Elaborate.

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Re: DOCTYPE problem?

The three garbage characters ahead of the doctype are appearing in the upper left corner of the display.

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Re: Anchoring problem in Firefox, it crops my browser after clicking the link

I found the trouble.

You have the charset declared as utf-8, but the validator says there are characters which are not utf-8.

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Re: Anchoring problem in Firefox, it crops my browser after clicking the link

Dumb question, but does this page use a lot of browser cache?

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Re: help!! retreving lost aol emails

Log OUT of the guest account and you should find yourself back in yours.

I am talking about a guest account on yoiur PC login, not an AOL guest account.

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Re: illuminated keyboard flashing on & off

It could be drawing too much current from the port.

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Re: usb flash - icons problem

You have to repeat your process on every computer you use the stick on. The icon settings are stored on the computer, not the stick.

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Re: newbie blonde inspriron user

When two virus checkers are running, they waste a lot of time checking each other's activites.

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Re: The system CPU has failed?

Could be the battery is bad or not making contact.

The video card may have failed.

The CMOS may have been glitched when you put the battery in, and has bad data. Try again.

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Re: XP renames my files

Is it renaming the file, or leaving the original file untouched and creating a new file?

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Re: How can i capture a crash while running a batch file?

Batch script has an ON ERROR function to redirect batch execution to a section designed to handle errors.

If an error occurs, the program with the error can not keep running.

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Re: Slowness in replying to threads?

It seems to be waiting on the ad.

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Re: Thank You

Happy bot day? :D

That was supposed to be a grin : D what happened?

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Re: Speed Improvement?

The bottleneck is that doubleclick oversubscribes its service. It has done this for years. When too many ad requests come in at once, its servers get overloaded, and one of the following happens:
- The router nearest the servers can't contact one. (404 error)
- The server doesn't answer some of the requests. (Timeout)
- The server takes too long to download, slowing the page load. (slow)
- The server takes so long to start downloading that the browser times out. (Timeout)

Kicking these clowns off is the only solution.

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Strange Javascript results

I want to understand the difference in parameter passing between the three methods used:

- Returning an array in the return statement. (variable a in the code below)
- Returning an array copied as a unit from another array. (variable c in the code below)
- Returning an array, each element individually set. (variable d in the code below)

<html>
<head>
<title>A test</title>

<script type="text/javascript">

function tstarray(x,y,z){
 var i;
 var w = Array(4);
 for(i=0;i<4;i++) {
  w[i] = x[i];
  z[i] = x[i];
 };

 y = z;

 alert('function ' + w + ', ' + x + ', ' + y + ', ' + z);
 return w;
}
 
</script>

</head>

<body>

<script type="text/javascript">

var b = [1,2,3,4];
var a = Array(4);
var c = Array(4);
var d = Array(4);

a = tstarray(b,c,d);

alert('return ' + a + ', ' + b + ', ' + c + ', ' + d);

</script>

</body>
</html>

In both IE and Firefox, the alert in the function returns:

function 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4

But the alert in the calling program returns:

function 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4, ,,,, 1,2,3,4

Why is the variable c undefined?

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Re: Using CSS in email? Or alternative?

Too often the recipient of your email may not have control over his computer, because he is part of a business or university network that is controlled by systems administrators.

One idea is to send a plain text email, and provide a link in it to a formatted website.

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Re: My website doesn't work on some computers.

The client computer must have the script interpreter to execute the script. VBScript is a Microsoft product. So guess where it runs.

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Re: help!! retreving lost aol emails

The guest login does NOT have access to your files. Only your login has access to your files, unless you make them public.

This could also explain your missing emails.

If you have irreplaceable files, MAKE BACKUPS ON 2 DIFFERENT REMOVEABLE DISKS.

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Re: Tough Problem

There was a bug in the IE7 upgrade which prevented Yahoo from working right. I found the solution on the web then, but I can't find it now. It involved deleting a duplicate file

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Re: I have an internet connection but cannot access web pages!!! HELP!!!

The fact that it works with usb indicates that the internet setting has been changed from the ethernet port to a usb port.

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Re: Win2003 &NortonGhost2003..trouble..need help

It may be the only way.

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Re: usb flash - icons problem

The folder icons are normally stored on the computer, not the stick. If you store an icon on removable storage, the computer will chose a different icon to use when it can't find your icon because the stick isn't there.

So you will have to copy this alternate icon to the same location in each computer you will use the stick on.

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Re: illuminated keyboard flashing on & off

Sounds like you need to replace the fluorescent bulb inside it. Fluorescent lamps flash on and off at the ends of their lives, and usually do so after about 6000 starts.

But even a new fluorescent light will blink if it is cold. Allow a keyboard brought inside from cold weather to sit at room temperature a couple hours before using it.

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Re: Unmountable_boot_volume stop error message

It's possible you have an unbootable disk in a removable drive. If so removing that disk will allow the compoter to boot.

A virus may have replaced the boot sector.

Or shutting the computer down wrong
damaged the boot sector.

You need your original windows disks to fix this.

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Re: preparing to switch to dial-up

ATT DSL is cheaper.

Whether or not you time out depends on the ISP you choose.

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Re: CANNOt Delete file No option to delete,rename,move file

Use the File menu in My Computer.

Select the file. Then open File and selct Delete.

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Re: system crashing

The power supply might be going south.

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Re: New Smileys

Smileys aren't spheres! They are shaped like M&Ms.

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Re: Rouge ads?

Unfortunately, this site uses popups for important information - and it's a government site.

Maybe I will note which ads are obnoxious, and not buy the products advertised.

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Re: Discrepancy in code tags

Could it be browser-dependent?

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Re: Speed Improvement?

I can read the posts before the ad loads.

But the moving pictures are just as annoying as ever.

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Re: If you could change one thing ...

I experienced the page waiting for the ad to load before I could read any posts. If the ad failed to load, I could get the rest of the page sometimes, but sometimes I got a 404 error or a timeout. It often took 30 seconds to a minute for the page to load.

I also experienced the scrambled page elements. But it happened when the ad loaded had a different aspect ratio than the space reserved for the ad.

The site seem fast tonight.

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Re: Using CSS in email? Or alternative?

Find out what email systems your clients have.

Send different emails to clients with different systems.

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Re: Anchoring problem in Firefox, it crops my browser after clicking the link

This willl tell you where code errors are.

The W3C Markup Validation Service

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Re: Mamu help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Is this a school assignment? We don't help you cheat.

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Re: Opinions? javascript/php/etc and programming standards

My thoughts:

- How much whitespace you use depends on how much content you want, vs how much you have to pay for server memory and download bandwidth.

- I use only one space for each indent in tight memory situations. But I use a monospace editor font.

- I have only one level of indentation for each table:

<table><tr>
  <td>contents</td>
  <td>contents</td>
  <td>contents</td>
</tr><tr>
  <td>contents</td>
  <td>contents</td>
  <td>contents</td>
</tr></table>

- I base my decision of whether to use tables or divs to format the page by how I want the page to fail it the browser window is too small:

-- When div is used with Mozilla, it overlaps the elements (especially images) on the screen when the browser window is too narrow.
-- When div is used with IE, it collapses the horizontally spaced elements into a vertical column when the browser window is too narrow.
-- When tables are used with either Mozilla or IE, a horizontal slide bar appears at the bottom of the screen, and the display is wider than than the window.

- I totally can't stand the variable name standards which originated with c (probably because I think C is one of the third worst programming language). I string together enough characters to do the job, e.g. digindx for digit index.

- I usually choose code to reflect the mix of browsers I expect to be using it, but I also realize that if I use …

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MattEvans commented: "I base my decision of whether to use tables or divs to format the page by how I want the page to fail it the browser window is too small" < Very True. Let's hope they fix CSS up properly sometime soon >_< - Matt +2
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Re: Open in window, not frame

It is not a matter of jumping to a conclusion, but having an eye to the future.

Within a few years, browsers will no longer support deprecated elements. Every book I have on the subject warns that this will eventually happen. The transitional doctypes are said to be temporary. Anyone who uses deprecated elements will suddenly find himself with a lot of work to do to fix every page he has. One book says (in the instructions of a table of HTML elements):

"An X indicates that the tag is deprecated (strongly discouraged) in html 4, and will likely be rendered obsolete in future browsers. You may need to use some of these deprecated tags to meet the needs of your audience now, but if your audience will be using very new browsers that support style sheets and HTML 4 completely, we strongly suggest that you avoid deprecated elements."

Target=name is listed as being deprecated in every book on HTML I have except one. That book was printed in 2000. One book has:

"Caution: The target attribute has been deprecated.

However, I just noticed that that it might be that what has really been deprecated is "name", as used for anchor links. It has been replaced by "id", because name has other incompatible uses in other HTML tags.

Another source: "However, frames have turned out to be more of a fad. You can have many of the benefits realized by using frames by using …

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Re: How to set landscape orientation?

Nope. Such changes are purposely banned by the W3C for security reasons. The following are not allowed:

- The website cannot read or change properties or objects which did not originate on its own server.

- Websites cannot set properties on file uploads.

- User confirmation is required for a website to send an email or post a message.

- The website is not allowed to close windows it did not create without user confirmation.

- The website is not allowed to snoop in the cache or the rest of the user's computer.

- The website cannot create windows which are not visible, or windows without a title bar.

- The website cannot alter computer settings without user permission.

- The website cannot change security settings.

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Re: Anchoring problem in Firefox, it crops my browser after clicking the link

It works OK in HTML files.

Need more info:
- What does the class in the span tag do?
- Is part of your page dynamically formed?
- Did you forget to close a tag above the span tag?
- Is there a change caused by the use of php.

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Re: Remove URL from Bottom of Printed Web Page

Ah, printing on a printer. I thought you meant you wanted to stop it from printing it on the screen in the status bar, when you said "below." (Our systems put the url on the top line of the paper. The date and page count are on the bottom.)

What the printer prints on paper is determined by the browser itself, the local browser settings (page setup), and the local printer driver settings.

If you are the system administrator, you can change these settings on each user's computer, and possibly protect them from user changes.

But as a webmaster operating over the internet, you have no right to change these settings. They belong to the owner of the client computer.

Some of the information is provided for copyright notice reasons.

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Re: How to change a textbox to a dropdown with Drop Down Menu

Load a new page which looks similar, but has the dropdown instead of the textbox.

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Re: Using CSS in email? Or alternative?

It's not bad, if you can get it to render legibly on non-html systems. Minimize tag use.

My experience has been the following:

- Most UNIX and VMS email systems (e.g. Pine) don't parse the HTML. They display the code as text. Most unix terminals use monospace fonts. This includes ALL systems which are connected to in a Telnet-type environemnt.

- Many institutions (including colleges) take administrator privileges away from users, and do one of the following to emails containing HTML:
- Turn off HTML parsing (you see the HTML as text)
- Render the page as plain text by sstripping all tags out of the code. But you see the & codes instead of the characters they make.
- Throw emails containing HTML into spam boxes.
- Throw the HTML email away entirely, often without notifying the user that he didn't get it.

They do this to prevent malicious software from getting into their systems.

- Some system-wide firewalls strip HTML code out of the incoming email data stream, leaving plain text.

- Some legacy browsers (such as Lynx, used on DOS systems), and emailers render only a few tags. The other tags are just deleted from the text without formatting it. Fonts are meaningless on such browsers, since they use the CGA text screen.

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Re: Can someone help me here.

This is the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript forum.

How are you calling the JavaScript from your html code? It doesn't just run itself.

Either your main JavaScript code must be in the body portion of the code, or you must use an on-action attribute in an html tag to cause a function to be called when the specified action occurs.


Also, I see some errors in your code. Errors cause the JavaScript interpreter to quit running.

The errors:

Line 1: The language attribute is nonstandard. Use type="text/javascript" instead.

Line 2: Missing ending ;

Lines 7-9: Only one main program is allowed in an html file. Which set runs depends on the browser.

Line 18: Incomplete statement (you can't start a quote on one line and end it on another - note that if the listing program you used to put this page here is rendering \n as a real newline instead of printing the characters, these are not errors).

This also happens in lines:
23, 26, 30, 34, 39, 45, 52, 56, 60, 65, 71, 78, 82, 86, 91, 97, 104, 108, 112, and 117.

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Re: Rouge ads?

I have Firefox. Where is this pause button?

I don't have an ad blocker, because they block a site I have to use.

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Re: Slowness in replying to threads?

I'm getting occasional timeouts - now (2 am EDT).

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