Posts by MidiMagic

You do not have the RIGHT to mess with my computer. It happens to be the CRIME of computer tampering if you try to.

That browser and media player are installed on MY computer, not yours. The settings I make apply to how they behave, and you have absolutely no right to change them.

This is a problem with a browser setting, not the code.

I researched this a little more.

height="100%"
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height: 100%;

This means 100 percent of the height of the HTML element which CONTAINS the element with the height attribute.

So if you have the element you put the 100% height on inside a block element, it will take the entire height of the block element. It will fill the space inside the block element vertically.

But the body element has no defined height. So if it body the only container, the object with the height attribute will become the height of the entire document, no matter how tall it is.

You have some capitalized style properties. That's a no-no.

IE messes up, interpreting them anyway, though it is not supposed to.

Firefox follows the W3C standard and makes styles case-sensitive. Thus, Firefox does not recognize the captitalized style properties.

Capitalizing DISPLAY is the problem. CSS is case-sensitive, and display is a lowercase property.

IE is the one messing up, because it is treating it as case-insensitive.

All of your tags and properties should be lowercase.

This function belongs to the user, not the webmaster. If the user wants a landscape print, he can open the file menu and select it.

Remember that some users have printers which don't do landscape orientation.

Where's the . in front of pullquote in the stylesheet?
Where's the required mime type parameter in the style tag?

<style type="text/css">
.pullquote { 

put your styles here
}
</style>

I have more info now.

I im in a lull where I don't need the software that fights IE over some computer settings, so I looked at the posting window with IE.

The watermark is lighter on IE than on Mozilla.

Unfortunately, I do have to use the software that IE messes up often, so I must use Mozilla.

Let me tell you what it looks like to me.

The top line of the watermark reads:

"Please wrap code in code-blocks"

If I type the first line of my post as:

"The kind of code you need is:"

What I see when I look at it again after I type is:

TPhleekansde ofwcrooadpe ycooudneeeidnis:

It's possible you are set for a character-coding setting that sends character codes the site does not understand.

I had this problem elsewhere. The problem was the way I grabbed the code from the editor to put it on the website.

The editor had a single code which says "line number goes here" The actual number displayed for the line depended on where it was in the file.

When you copy from the editor screen with the Windows drag-and-copy method, it picks up the line number codes, instead of the actual line numbers. Then when you paste, you get a mess, because it's an unprintable character.

If instead, I exported the portion of text from the editor, then the numbers stayed put.

The problem is not your code, but the printer settings on the browser. Mine has the following check boxes (under file/print setup):

shrink page to fit
print background
portrait/landscape

It also has settings for margins and titles.

Html has several tag pairs tags for this purpose:

code, kbd, pre, samp, tt, var

code is an inline pair of tags used to show computer code

kbd i an inline pairs used to represent keyboard input.

<kbd>C:> diskcopy a: b:</kbd>

pre is for preformatted text. It is a block version of code

<pre>
 for i=1 to 10
   print i, a[i]
 next i
 </pre>

They render everything between them exactly as written, including indenting. It renders as:

for i=1 to 10
   print i, a[i]
 next i

samp is inline for printer output

<samp>
Account    Total
0001245   $  12.45
0001365   $  67.21
0002435   $   0.00
</samp>

tt is for teletype in a monospace font

var is inline for a variable

All of these are in the xhtml standard as well as the html.
samp shows printer output.

in the td tag, you can specify:

<td align="char">

If you don't also specify char="#" (where # is the character you choose), guess what character it uses to align the columns. The DECIMAL POINT! Just what you need.

It has been my experience that, since different browsers render objects differently, that it is impossible to do what you are trying to do and have it render correctly on all browsers. The usual causes of the problem are:

- Some browsers include the borders, margins, and padding in the width you declare of a block object. Others do not include these, so the object gets wider when you add borders, margins, or padding.

- When this extra width is added in, it can make the entire page wider than 100 percent. Then the browser has to cheat to fit everything in. It steals the room where it can find it. This results in uneven locations, squeezed columns, moved images, and columns stacked vertically.

- If you write the page for the browser that takes more space for the extras, then the page has slop in it when rendered on browsers which don't take more space for the extras. So everything slides to the left.

- On the browsers that don't take more space outside the block, the space is taken inside the block. This squeezes the stuff in the block.

- With the browsers that take the extra space outside the block, code written for browsers that take the space inside the block now has slop inside the block.

The moral is: You can't win. Your page is sloppy on some browser, no matter how you write your code.

Since IE is …

I'm sick of people who want to hide stuff and disable browser functions. That's not what the Internet is for.

You are forgetting that, once a user finds a web page, he can find any other file in the same folder using simple methods. He can also find subfolders.

I have a page which is not linked to from anywhere else, except that my browser starts with it (to save download MBs for real users). Yet I found it indexed on a search engine last week.

I see several errors:

1. The style tags go in the head part of the code, not the body. Your invalid use may be confusing browsers.

2. Something is very wrong with the second line in the code section. The quotes are mismatched.

In addition, the div method of making columns falls apart if the width of the combined columns becomes wider than the browser window.

Note that IE calculates the width of an object in a different way than most other browsers. Widths which add to 100 percent in some browsers add to 104 percent or 96 percent in other browsers, because some browsers include borders and padding when setting total width, while others exclude them.

Believe it or not, tables still do a better job.

I can't even read your code, let alone understand it. Try using well-formed indenting. And put the code in a code box.

But I have a theory that all of the font tags are messing up the sort. Take them out and get it working first.

One other hint: Don't try to copy the "view source code" page from your browser. I think this is the code to display the source code page, not your actual code.

It's super-simple when you know how:

Every time you change to a new screen, you open a different html page.

Each one of the subgalleries is a separate html document with its own filename.

Each individual image page is a separate html document with its own filename.

Each html document contains the html code for the images it displays and the links to the other pages.

So, instead of having one huge program to do all of this, you have a lot of little webpage files, one for each page.
To make it easy, make the first gallery page. Then "save-as" it to another filename, and change the image and hypertext links, and you have the second gallery page. Repeat this process to make all of the gallery pages. Use a similar process to make all of the image pages.

You aren't going to sell anything by annoying the prospective customer to death with moving gee-whizzes flying all over the screen.

Give me a simple screen with no moving stuff, no text on top of images, and no popups, and I am much more likely to read the whole screen.

If there are a bunch of distracting moving objects, I hit my back button to get rid of the whizzing and spinning objects.

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A computer can't run any code until the code actually exists on that computer's hard disk. That's what the download does.

The ability of a computer to control another computer in this manner is the way viruses spread. Operating systems should have never been made in such a way to allow this in any way.

If the battery died or something clobbered the CMOS ram, the computer has forgotten the hard disk type, and possibly the floppy disk types (especially if a 1.2MB drive is installed).

If you can get into the CMOS and BIOS setup menu, you have to re-enter the info on everything about the computer. And if there is no battery, you have to do it every time you start the computer.

Worse is the case where the battery leaked and ate some of the motherboard traces.

The computer has forgotten how to use its peripherals without the battery. With some computers and peripherals, you don't even get a screen, because the computer has forgotten how to display. And it has certainly forgotten what hard disk you have.

If you have a strange video adaptor (Amdek or Microtek), you may have to install a standard video card to get the system going again.

Put the new battery in. Then turn on the computer. Hold the key your manual tells you to use to access the CMOS memory settings.

If you get to the settings screen, first try the auto configure. If that doesn't work, you might have to start over. If you still have the display and can use it, you have to set each device to the kind that is actually there. The hard disk info can usually be found on top of the drive, or by looking up the drive on the Internet.

Two possibilities come to mind:

1. Your ISP is not set up to handle it.

2. You have to upgrade to a higher account price to use it.

Divest it. :mrgreen:

That foldername is reserved by Windows. It automatically empties itself when you close the browser.

But you can easily get around the need for the web files to be in that directory, unless they have scripts.

First, have you tried the "save page as" selection when you right mouse on the page? That lets you put it anywhere you want it.

If that doesn't work, it's probably because the webmaster used trickery to copy-protect it. Try moving the "(webpagename).html" file and the "(webpagename) files" folder from the Tempory Internet Files folder into the folder you want. Put both in the same folder.

If that doesn't work, you will have to edit the img and a tags in the web page html file to reflect where the stuff really is. You may also have to capture and save the images separately.

This is definitely a registry problem.

The icons for those programs are selected in the registry, as are the icons for certain file types. If the registry entry is damaged, the default icon for the file type is displayed.

It's also possible that the icons themselves were deleted. But this is not likely, since the other icons were recoverable.

This would have been so easy in the old VW line editor. One command would have done it:

S/*/*addedword/*

I think edlin has similar powers. It's hiding in the MS-DOS part of XP.

There are several factors in downloading speed.

1. It the website itself is overloaded, you can't do anything to change that. The following factors apply:

- The number of uses downloading from that website at any one time.

- The speed of the connections that website has. This is especially important if the website is on a home or business PC somewhere, instead of on a huge server cluster or mainframe.

- Whether or not the website has faster drives for some pages and slower drives for others.

- Whether or not the website gives priority to certain kinds of files (such as text or pay files).

- Whether or not ads displaying on the web page are slowing everything down.

- Whether or not an operator must give manual permission for a download to occur.

2. If your own ISP is overloaded, you can't do anything except change ISPs. The following factors apply:

- The speed of your own ISP.

- The number and activity of users currently using your ISP.

- Whether or not your ISP is filtering your download to stop malicious software.

- Whether or not your ISP gives priority to certain file types, users, or services.

- In the case of a cable modem, the total capacity of the cable running from the base station to your area. Other users on your branch can slow things down without slowing down the ISP.

If it keeps coming back after the scans show it is gone, a web page you are using is putting it back.

This sounds like the baddie program altered the registry to run itself.

There might be other solutions, but a reinstall of Windows should fix it.

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That would be hard to do, because I no longer have the laptop.

And a screenshot wouldn't have worked, because the screenshot showed the whole "displayed page", but the laptop display showed only a portion of it at any time. It had buttons to roll the display up and down to see the whole displayed page. They are not the standard buttons for the arrow keys.

The real problem is that HTML doesn't really have a page height setting. You would have to set a container holding the table to have a page height.

It's back again.

It appears you are the only one complaining about them, I have not seen any complaints from anyone else. Is your video card really ancient and supports only 64 colors so that your monitor does not support different shades of grey?

No, I have a fully functional Dell computer with the resolution set to the highest color rendering setting..

Like I said earlier, I have the same trouble when magazines put backgrounds behind their text. It is a visual processing problem. It is annoying, because I can't read text that others can read. It seems to be the way my brain is wired.

I have always had this problem, but it wasn't a real problem until recently, when too many people started getting cute with backgrounds behind their text. Today's newspaper had an article I couldn't read the first three paragraphs of without masking it with note cards.

I also have trouble with watermarks on printed pages of text. I have to copy the text to the clipboard, and then paste it into Notepad before I print it.

It happens occasionally for me too, but its not limited to DaniWeb, I've seen it elsewhere also and assumed its just the way the internet works some times.

The code in some ads starts a new download with a different ad every 15 seconds or so.

I can think of several reasons:

1. The file you are trying to play is corrupted. Try playing a different file.

2. The sound driver is not installed, or is the wrong driver for the hardware.

3. Some other piece of software has grabbed the sound output device and won't release it.

4. You are trying to play the file with the wrong player. Maybe it has the wrong extension.

There is suddenly a flurry of people not being able to access certain sites. One would wonder if those sites are located in the area where winter storms took out the power and communications lines.

Most likely the website itself is having trouble.

All kinds of things may have happened to them:

- Their computer may have eaten the website AND the backup.
- Their computer may now be a pile of burned out chips, due to a surge or a lightning stroke.
- They went bankrupt.
- Their building burned down.
- The company was bought out.
- The company failed to pay the ISP bills, and was disconnected.
- They got kicked off the ISP for content violations.
- They forgot to renew their url, and it got nabbed by someone else.
- Their ISP got a better price for the domain name
- Somebody trademarked the domain name, and they had to change it (this happened to me a few years ago).
- The ISP was bought out, and the new owner changed the domain name.
- They changed ISPs to get a better price. That means they have a new url. (use search)
- Their ISP's building burned down.
- Their ISP's computer is now a pile of burned out chips.
- The whole area is blacked out due to a snowstorm (This just happened to some plains states). No power, no website.

There are a few cases where the trouble could be on your end:

- Your ISP blocked the site (usually due to spam or porn).
- Your security settings …

Don't expect miracles. If the environmental noise is as loud as or louder than the desired sound, you aren't going to get rid of it.

I want to know how it is that every time someone tries to take a "man on the street" interview, the worst of all noises decide to occur.

I have been asked to remove the following noises from such interviews:

- Two screaming fire engines much louder than the respondant.
- A city bus with a bad bearing
- Yappy barking dogs being led by a passer-by
- A boomcar passing by
- The city sign department pounding a signpost into the ground
- A circular saw from a nearby construction site.

"Vote now. The plan of Icron, or the plan of Tillamar?"

You don't need a reformat. At most, you need a reinstall of either Windows or some application programs. Something messed up the registry.

On each icon which is wrong, right mouse the icon, and select properties. Then click change icon. Usually the corerect icon is hideen inside the program's own exe file, or in a related file in the same folder.

Another trick is to delete the desktop icon IF IT IS A SHORTCUT. Then just go to the real program and make a new shortcut. The system tray icons are also shortcuts.

Reinstalling Windows will cause the registry to be rebuilt in one easy, but time-consuming step. Windows will detect the programs and make a new desktop.

Another trick is to simply reinstall each program which has the wrong icon.

We would have very little malware if Windows hadn't been written to allow advertising.

Microsoft made Windows more complicated so nobody can come up with a competing byt compatible operating system.

The removal of the program seems to have removed part of Windows. A reinstall is in order.

It's possible that the fact that you once used a floppy drive there caused Windows to query the drive "is disk loaded?" Of course, since it has no removable disk, the stick didn't know how to answer the query.

Go into the device driver menu in Control Panel and check the settings.

It's possible that some piece of software has its own memory of a floppy drive being there, and is somehow imparting this wrong info to Windows.

It sounds like the screensaver wasn't coded right.

How is it supposed to know which word to add?

Does it always add the same word when it finds a particular word? Or is the same word always added in the same place in the file?

Are the words to be added add in a list?

If you always need to add the same words in the same places in the file, you might be able to trick Excel into doing the job for you.

This malware may have changed the settings of the display driver somehow. The computer might think it has a special laptop screen or something like that.

It may have also altered the registry or the Windows code to install itself, redirecting the part which normally loads the background to instead load the malware.

Sounds like you have some stuff running which should not be running.

- Check for malware and spyware.

- Do you have more than one virus blocker, or more than one spyware blocker running simultaneously? That munches a LOT of time, because the blockers keep checking on each other.

- Check to see if you left a session recorder running (copies whatever interactions you do to a logging file).

- Is your startup tray choked with programs?

- Check for programs which installed themselves to run all the time.

- Is your hard disk almost full? If so, the system is looking for temproary file space.

- Defragment your hard disk.

- Your hard drive may be having read troubles. It could need a reformat.

I noticed something else when it happened the last time. I now know it is significant.

The stop icon in the browser header was never replaced with the reload icon when this happened, indicating that the ad was either still downloading something, or somehow was pre-empting the browser.

I don't mind an ad on the screen. I do mind ads which do the following:

- Drive you crazy with flashing, motion, or jittering.
- Won't let you leave the page.
- Won't let the rest of the page load until you read the entire ad sequence once.
- Change the position of the screen scrolling to bring the ad back into view.
- Keep the browser downloading more ads (some people still have to pay for the amount of web traffic, or lose their connection after so much traffic has passed).
- Change the display of another page by changing the available screen size.

I wish that the ad people would realize that the people they annoy WON'T WANT TO BUY THE PRODUCT.
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