Posts by MidiMagic

For most servers, there can be only one period in a filename. It must be between the name and the.jpg extension.

Clarify that please. Give a diagram and the code.

Pollen.

This sounds to me like the hard disk has a bad low level format, and while parts of it are working, the area with the Windows kernel is damaged to the point where the kernel will not load.

It needs a complete reformat for low and high level, and a reinstall of Windows.

You do not have the right to take over the user's computer. It is illegal to do so.

An id can be used only once. It can NOT appear in multiple tags.

You need to give each tag a unique id, and then cycle through the ids with a loop in js.

e.g.

<a .... id="aa1">
<a .... id="aa2">
<a .... id="aa3">
<a .... id="aa4">
<a .... id="aa5">

If you are using a bookmark, try typing in the url for the site without using the bookmark.

Site upgrades frequently cause this problem when bookmarks are used, especially if the bookmark goes somewhere other than the site home page.

Columns of what, in what kind of file?

If you use the back button to return to the page with the first unread post link, it is still the copy of the page you saw before you went into a forum. You are looking at a cached page.

Refreshing this page updates the link to the correct location.

IE won the browser war solely because it cheats. It comes with Windows.

There is a trick to making stuff fit in a browser-independent way:

Don't put block-object size definitions in the same tag or style that contains surrounding styles (margin, border, padding).

Nest them instead, so you can control which is inside.

FF puts the surrounding styles outside a block-object's defined size. IE crams them inside.

Unfortunately, no on the duration.

Only events can be recorded, not durations.

Remaining at the same web page is not something that is noticeable, especially if the user uses the back button to leave a site. You would have to know when the next page was loaded, IF one was loaded immediately after.

Also, be aware that not all porn downloads are intentional. I once was attacked by a hijacked website that downloaded hundreds of porn popups, while searching for information on the Three Stooges.

What you need to do is refresh the page the "first unread post" link is on before selecting the link.

Also check to see if you have cookies disabled.

The link is broken.

This is easy:

1. Using the downpointing black arrow mouse pointer (appears at the top of a column), select the columns you want distributed evenly by dragging across their tops.

2. Use the Table menu / autofit / Distribute columns evenly.

MS is saying to try another email company, not another program on your computer. Suggestion: Yahoo isn't too bad.

In other words, they say you will have to subscribe to a different email server, and change your email address.

One thing: find out if either the email service you have, or your ISP, has its own email browser.

For example, AOL doesn't work very well except on its own email browser. So either use the AOL browser, or give AOL the heave-ho.

Easier:

ans = getinfo();
if(ans!=1 && ans!=2){ans = getinfo();};

This sounds like either a damaged installation, or a protocol problem between Outlook and your ISP (which is why NS said to try another service).

There is a possibility that malware has invaded the Outlook environment. Or it might be that a malware scanner quarantined one of Outlook's files.

Another possibility is a damaged registry entry that tells Outlook where files go.

Try these (in this order):

- Scan for malware.

- Reinstall Outlook.

- Try reinitializing your service with your ISP (they will have to initiate this).

- Try, even on a temporary basis, a different email service.

I see some things:

- You have an absolute size and a surrounding style in the same style entry. Don't put padding and width in the same block object. You can put a padding of 0 in such a style entry, but that is not what you did.

- When you specify a value of 0, you do NOT put a unit of measure on it. Thus, it should be 0, not 0em. The 0em causes a style error, throwing the browser into quirks mode. It put in the default padding, not 0 padding.

It could still be a security setting. IP addresses are usually counted as not trusted, and so the security won't allow scripts.

If empty space appears to the right of a table, then one of the following happened:

- An extra td pair appears in one row.

- an unclosed tag.

- use of the deprecated width= attribute in strict DTDs. Use CSS instead.

- An object inside a containing div, but outside the table, might be placed to the right. It could be a typo after the closing table tag.

- The use of a float in the table tag or its style.

- Absolute positioning messes up when screen resolution or window size changes.

If the data are on the server computer, javascript can't see them, because javascript runs on the client computer.

IP addresses as web addresses are obsolete.

1. Don't use IP addresses. Use of an IP address in a web address is usually a sign of sneakiness. Some firewalls block this (keeping your user from getting to your site). An IE security setting may be blocking this.

2. If you used a relative reference to the JS file, the browser expects to build the path to find the script by using the url of the current page. It gets lost when an IP address appears instead.

This is phishing or malware spam

It has nothing to do with your computer or your email service. The notices are phake. This is usually used for phishing, advertising, or downloading malware to your computer.

The entire notice was dummied up to fool you. No undeliverable email mentioned in the notice ever existed. The phakers are trying to get you to click on the links in the email. When you do that, they can do whatever they want to you.

In this case, the numbers at the bottom were an attempt to install malware on YOUR computer. It was sanitized by your ISP.

Just throw them out without opening them or following any links.

Go into Format/Cells/Alignment and check Wrap Text.

To force a new line, use Alt+Enter.

Another way is to create a text box in Word, and then paste it as an object in Excel.

I expected the unclosed tr. I have done the same thing.

IE and FF have different defaults for how text adjusts itself inside a td cell. To get them to behave alike, you have to define the vertical-align attribute in the CSS.

Note that is is impossible to make a page perfectly fit vertically in the browser window in a way that works with all browsers and screen resolutions.

Note that the nature of the div is fluidity. It can't be nailed down. If you need a nailed down structure that won't slither away, tables are better.

What is needed is a <dr> tag, to work with divs the way <tr> works with tables.

I see several errors:

- An input tag does not belong between a tags. Block tags can't be inside a tags.The clickable text or image belongs there.

- There is no title attribute for an a tag. The title belongs between the a tags.

- The alt attribute is required on an image tag. It should contain the text you erroneously have in the title attribute of the a tag.

- target is deprecated in the strict doctypes.

Check to see if any of the methods or functions you are using are nonstandard IE extensions to JS. Other browsers can't use them.

- You have "Value" at one point, and "value" at another point. JS is case-sensitive.

Is that supposed to be html or xml?

You can put the link in anyway, and use the alt portion of the img tag for the link text.

<a href="myurl.htm">
  <img src="mypic.jpg" alt="Click here for my purpose." />
</a>

The hyperlink is active in either case, but the link text doesn't appear unless the picture doesn't load.

"Secure" and "JavaScript" can't exist together.

Anyone can read your JavaScript text by downloading the page. Thus, they can know how to access the secure connection.

Your browser dropped into quirks mode because the content violated the doctype. It is no longer rendering XHTML on the page.

Use the W3C validator found here:

http://validator.w3.org/

You should still be having trouble. Frames are deprecated in XHTML, which is the doctype you chose.

Security solutions:

1. Mail a blanket to all people who want security instead of freedom.

2. Abolish all man-made systems of identification.

3. Stop trying to keep track of every person in the country.

What did you expect? DST itself is a kludge.

A stupid-seeking missile?

What we need is a law like the one for auto parts: Require computer companies to provide service for their products for 10 years.

Depending on how the code is written, you might need to refresh the forum page before using that link.

Can you convert inches to pixels?

1 inch = 2.54 cm.

You are using a nonstandard IE extension to JavaScript.

The correct name for the style is "fontWeight", not "font".

The clocks are messed up because of Daylight-Stupid Time

No, it will be everyone in the middle east attacking Israel.

Why does everyone think Christians want war? Christians just don't rabidly oppose it like the PC people do, because death is not the end to Christians.

War is prohibited in the Baha'i Faith. PC was plagiarized from the Baha'i religion.

The world ended for me when Windows replaced DOS, and my wife left me for an alien.

What kind of bureaucratic clown requires you to keep records on registration attempts that are not completed? Sounds like either government (too nosy) or some pencil and bean counting red-tapeworm with nothing else to do.

Divs are kind of unpredictable:

- Make sure the div is hidden with the visibility attribute:

.divoff {visibility: hidden;}
.divon {visibility: visible;}

Do not use the collapse property.

- Note that if the div is initially hidden, its contents are not rendered until the div is made visible. If the contents won't fit in the div's size (as rendered when it is hidden), the div will change size when it is made visible.

If you initially render it visible, you will see where it ends up, and hiding it will not change it. The reverse is not true.

- Note that the external div of a nested hidden structure must NOT have margins, borders, or padding. This is because IE and FF render these differently, and won't render them until the div is made visible:

--- FF puts all of these OUTSIDE the div's declared dimensions. This causes the div to shoulder aside other stuff to fit.

--- IE puts all of these INSIDE the div's declared dimensions. This can cause the div to expand if its contents are too big to fit.

Again, these effects do not happen until the div becomes visible. Then, when the contents, margins, borders, and paddings are rendered, the div changes size and changes the total rendering.

Thius has to be done in a server-side script and database, such as PHP and SQL.

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.

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.

Mumbo in front of jumbo?

Isn't that a description of declaring variables?

Use one variable to decide which one is out.

Values:
0 = all in
1 = first one out
2 = second one out
3 = third one out
etc.

Keep a previous value variable to tell it which one to slide in.