Posts by MidiMagic

Put delays in your script, so it is not running continuously.

Yes the best thing is to add that site to your HOST file!! (And set cookies to 'block all 3rd party cookies')

I tried that once. There were two web pages I use that refused to load.

Also, I can't do that at the college.

If either of these has its own proprietary file format for saving object collection images in, then it can't be done.

Can you save each object as an image, and transfer the images to the other program, then reassemble them?

Never put spaces in filenames intended to be sent over the internet. Also do not use special characters in such filenames.

Only Windows allows that. Most servers do not allow spaces in filenames. Spaces in filenames are not part of the http definition. IE may not allow them.

You may also find that sometimes the file works, and sometimes it does not, depending on what particular path through the Internet the request takes. Some computers along the path may interpret spaces and special characters as separators or special commands.

Look for the following:

- Note that the image itself can't contain these features. There must be some html provided by Fireworks to locate them.

- Is there a script to take care of the hotspots? If so, can Dreamweaver find it?

- Are the hotspots there, but in the wrong location? Check by moving the mouse around? The locations created in Fireworks may be indexed to the upper left corner of a web page, not the location where you put the image in Dreamweaver.

- Are you using deprecated tags? If so, one program may not know what to do with them.

Do NOT use px. That makes the page incompatible with different screen resolutions.

How can a user resize a div? That is determined by the browser, not the user.

I don't see the problem. The image is displayed as a continuous image in IE8 and FF3.

It might be that screen resolution makes it look different on different computers.

Hacks are never a good idea.

I think the problem is that you are seeing what happens when the page does not fit in the browser window horizontally. Different browsers react differently to unexpected errors.

The page is too wide for many computer screen resolutions.

Check to see if the uploaded script is the same as the one you wrote.

If it is not the same, someone has hacked the site. Or it may be that the host either modified the script, or added another script.

Other possibilities:

- You are referencing someone else's website that has a virus.

- You have code in your script that is vulnerable to viruses.

- Your script code matches the code of a known virus enough that the virus checker is falsely flagging it.

- The virus is in the computer, not the website.

The problem I see is that the script (or whatever is making the images appear) is taking over, preventing scrolling from working.

You can't use the <!-- --> tags to hide scripts from the rendering engine anymore. The script in those tags is now hidden from the browser too. But you do not need to hide them from newer browsers.

doubleclick.net is the bane of all Internet users. It oversubscribes its advertising service. Then, when you try to access a page when its servers are overloaded, either you have to wait several minutes for the page to load, or the page will not load at all.

They should be kicked off the Internet permanently.

If you take too long to edit the post, you get logged out.

On the screenshot, I noticed that IE has no twitter plugin.

It is not a good idea to use the latest gratest tech on pages. Stuff takes several years to start working smoothly on all browsers. We are just starting to get .png compatibility.

Are your pictures in some strange format?

For compatibility with different browsers and screen resolutions, define sizes as either % or em.

ActiveX is NOT cross browser compatible.

The real problem is getting the page to render correctly after you make a change, in either system.

Changing one table cell should cause the entire row to resize. But some browsers do not change the space allocated for rendering on a dynamic basis very well. And note that the tr tag does not take many styles. Most table styles work more reliably if applied to either the table tag, or the td and th tags.

On the other hand, any structure made with div falls apart at the slightest provocation, including changing the size of an element. The div tag too often ignores a style if it can't be rendered when the style is enforced. Table often does this too, but not so grievously.

Part of the problem is that web programmers are trying to do things that were not thought of at the time these structures and instructions were created. The original idea was to replace contents, but not change sizes.

Tables are not deprecated. There is no conflict between tables and CSS. In fact, CSS has many features intended to make tables easier to use. So CSS does not replace the table.

The problem the W3C wanted to get rid of was the use of tables to position objects on the page. Before CSS, there was no other way to do it. Tables were used to create margins, borders, and padding, because there was nothing else provided to supply them. Tables were …

Did you ever have Real Player? Sometimes uninstalling Real Player does not remove the updater.

It came back later.

But I may have solved it again.

Real Player again.

I had to disable BOTH the auto-update and the auto-messenger.

If it doesn't come back again, I will mark this solved.

If you have Real Player, try disabling both the auto-update and the auto messaging features. This sped up my browser here considerably.

I just fixed it.

I found out that Real Player (again) has an auto update feature that installs itself when you update real player manually. But turning off the auto-update does not remove it from the start menu. Manually removing it works until you reboot.

It turns out that you also have to shut off the auto messaging feature in Real Player, or the feature turns itself back on.

It seems to have also fixed the trouble where the scrollbar jumps two screens with one click.

Shoot the advertiser!

Ban that advertiser. He's too greedy!

I don't mind ads until they get in the way. This is another sneaky trick that should be banned. It interferes with using the page.

Everybody write letters to those advertisers, telling how much you hate the fact that they keep you from using the page.

A friend of mine has a trick he uses on junk US mail. He puts a rectangle of scrap metal from the chassis corner punch in his fabrication shop into the postpaid envelope. Then the advertiser has to pay postage for all of the extra weight in the envelope.

I wish we could send electronic versions of those plates of metal to the intrusive advertisers.

I can't do that. Fix the ads.

I have a sledgehammer you can borrow.

Don't use px.

You have one pair of li tags not inside ul or ol tags.

That won't tell me anything without the html.

This may be a case of stuff not fitting on different screen resolutions.

Also realize that IE renders margins, borders, and padding differently than other browsers do. This can make things not fit in certain cases.

Do not use pixels, points, cm, or inches to define sizes if you want multi-computer compatibility. Use percent and em instead.

Why does everyone want these things? They are NOT accessible technology. You are losing disabled viewers by using them.

The screen resolutions of the two computers are probably different. This is determined by the hardware of the monitor and the display card, and a setting in the display part of the control panel.

Be careful. It is possible to set the screen resolution to a setting the monitor can't display. Then you can't see what you are doing.

If a script is changing the s tags into other tags, the styles will not apply. The styles are applied at the time the page originally renders.

The s tags cause a failure to render anything inside them, because html does not have an s tag. They also throw the browser into quirks mode.

I found some errors.

You can not put ANYTHING immediately inside a tr tag pair except a td tag pair or a th tag pair. You have an iframe tag pair there. You can't do that. This drops the browser into quirks mode.

There are only a few tags you can put directly inside a table tag pair too, and they are all related to tables. Other tags must be either outside the table tag pair, or inside a td pair or a th pair.

You have unescaped ampersands. They are causing the browser to lose its place, and making it drop into quirks mode.

You need to check your code for validity at the W3C.

The tables will realign vertically if they will not fit in the space available horizontally. The one intended to be on the right of the page will drop under the one on the left.

Note that different browsers and screen resolutions will make things fit or fail to fit differently.

If you want things to always fit, use percentages for width, and leave some extra space.

Actually it validates.... Where did you learn standards?

The school of hard knocks! (In other words: In reality, it still doesn't work.)

It validates, but it won't work right on all browsers. Firefox, for instance, throws out the entire style if it finds 0 with a unit of measure (e.g. 0px).

It's sort of like the <br/> tag. It validates, but IE messes up royally if you don't put the space before the slash.

Lets say you set your top and bottom margins to 30%. percentages can still be used to divide the page.

Percentages can divide the page, but that does not make the page fit the height of the browser pane. It divides the content among the height of the entire content, not the pane. The resulting page could be nicely divided into percentages, but it could also be half the browser pane height, or it could be twice the height of the browser pane.

Because the content is usually bigger than the browser pane, and because the aspect ratio of the browser pane is not standardized, the Internet is designed to sacrifice height specification in favor of width. So the Internet is designed to expand downward from the top until all content is rendered.

Trying to make content exactly fit the browser window, and trying to center something vertically in the browser window, are both wastes of time. There is no way to do it that works on all browsers, window sizes, …

"The two tables align vertically in IE/Firefox but they align vertically in chrome/safari "

What's the difference? Vertical is vertical.

Something on the page is rendering 1440 pixels wide.

The odd thing is that it is not that wide on my browser, which is on a monitor that is only 1152 pixels wide. I can see the entire page.

I found several html errors.

I suggest that you first use the W3C validator and fix the errors.

A Verizon ad just did the same thing. These are the ads in the panel under the right sidebar menus in the HTML & CSS forum, seen on an individual thread. Click the screenshot thumbnail to enlarge it, and the ad stays where it is, on top of the screenshot.

It happens here:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread197585.html

But for some reason, the ad does not always load if you follow the link. But it does load if you follow the link, click the Web Development tab from top menu, and then hit the back button after the page loads.

Another annoying ad.

This one is an Ampex ad. When I click on a posted screenshot to display it, the ad displays on top of the screenshot, so I can't see the right side of it.

The old page drove me crazy with mouseovers. Thanks for getting rid of them.

Try changing your browser window size in restored down condition, so you can see what happens on other screen resolutions.

Your home computer probably has a different screen resolution. You have to use percentages and other relative sizing styles, not pixels and other absolute sizes, if you want it to work on all computers.

More:

Firefox and IE behave differently when a table will not fit in the allocated space:

- Firefox makes the table wide enough to hold the content if it can't wrap the cell contents. This will even make the page wider if necessary, adding horizontal scrollbars if it is wider than the browser windows.

- IE will sacrifice the contents of the cells before it will make the table larger. But if table cells contain images, it will do the same thing that Firefox does.

Note that, when an object will not render in the allocated space, there are no standards telling a browser how to render it. So each browser has its own defaults.

URLs will not wrap, and should not be wrapped. Consider the following:

- Use br tags in the url where you want to break it (do this on the text part of the a tag, not the url part)

- Shorter urls? Can you avoid displaying the part that controls a script in the test part?

- Redesign the columns. Can the url take up an entire row below the other information (using rowspan)?

- Change the font size (if the trouble is minor)

- Can you wrap something else so the url fits?

Note that divs do not like to be in the same structure a table is in. There are known bugs when they are intermixed.

You want a lot, don't you. You night have to do this in JavaScript to get both view 3 and view 4.

Divs would give you 2 and 4, while a table will give you 3.

You could try putting a div inside a table cell for just the right column, but just a table cell for the left column. That would give you 3 and 4, but would require some other styles to make it work in all browsers.

Thanks so much for your response. This is my first time of uploading a website.
could please explain what you mean "if I am using correct Url"

You have to give the web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Firefox) the correct address to be able to see the site. You can't expect to use just the filename.

Sample urls:
mysitename.hostname.net
hostcomputer.hostname.net/mysitename
hostcomputer/hostname.net/myemailadedress/home.htm

I save a file as ( index.html).
how do i give it a public read and execute permission?

This depends on what operating system you host uses, and if they have created a command to do this. Ask the question on your hosting site's help page.

My first site host was a Unix computer, and I had to use the chmod command on each uploaded file. The second host had a command called spinweb. My current host ( but about to close) does it automatically.

how do i activate it?

Once you upload the file, it takes time for a site to be activated. Usually somebody at the main console must do this. Some sites do it automatically after the first page is uploaded.

I am new to css and am having problems with setting a single object(say a table) from a set percentage from the top of the page as well as the main background.

What should I be using for the table(or div)? Thanks

What you are asking is practically impossible. You are wasting your time trying.

The one thing that the web page can not know in a way that works on all browsers is the height of the browser pane. The Internet is not designed to work that way. Height refers to the height of the document, not the pane.

The basic design of the Internet is a long scroll of paper that is the length of your document. Rendering starts at the top, and expands downward until everything is rendered. You can NOT think of the browser pane as a sheet of paper that you can arrange however you want it.

Why is this so? It is because the following are different for each computer, monitor, browser, browser configuration, and browser window size:

- There are many different screen resolutions, each with a different number of pixels.

- There are now several different aspect ratios (width:height), including the normal 4:3 and the new 16:9.

- Different browsers have different aspect ratios for the viewing pane for the web page.

- The number of toolbars displayed on the browser changes the size and aspect ratio of the pane.

- Of the few …

It really can't be done in a way that works on all browsers. The web was designed so that you do not know what size the browser window is, and with no way to fit something exactly to the browser window. The page is supposed to flow to fit the existing space.

For width, you can simply use the width function with the appropriate percentages for what you want. You can use percent to change the sizes of images too. Use relative sizes, so all of the parts expand and contract at the same proportions.

Adjustments for the height of the browser window are not provided in a way that works on all browsers and computers. The best way to do it is to treat the web page as a scroll, not a sheet of paper. The Internet is not designed to treat information as sheets of paper.

Or use Adobe Acrobat to play the page. It can do this, because you can resize to fit..

Because most people open their browsers maximized, design the page to work on a standard browser aspect ratio. Make sure the background color is compatible, so if any background shows below the content, it is not obtrusive. If the page renders taller than the browser window, scrolling is a fact of life.

Remember that the new 16x9 monitors are throwing monkey wrenches into this.

If this is an assignment from a superior, you have the dubious task of …

There is no javascript in that code, just a call to a javascript program you are not showing.. There has to be another file with a .js extension containing the javascript code, plus code in the head of the html code to tell the browser where to find the file.

If you stole this code from another website (violating the owner's copyright), you did not also get the javascript file. The page will not work without it.

Float it left and set the width.

I use Microsoft Word to check the spellings of my web pages before I upload them. But don't let Word do the changes, or it will rewrite the page code. Also open the file in notepad, or wordpad, and make the changes there.

Scripts can't draw on parts of the page that are not on the screen at the moment. You need a way to run the script again after the screen size is changed.

Partial transparency is a nonstandard extension, and is not supported in the same way by all browsers.