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MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: .png vs. .gif

Older browsers don't know what a .png is.

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Dsiembab commented: thanks +1

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Browser Display Issue, Please Help

It does matter in Firefox, which follows the W3C standard. Firefox does not recognize uppercase or mixed case versions of styles and attributes in doctypes that prohibit them.

The style "height" must not have a capital "H". The "h" must be lowercase.

height = OK
HEIGHT = wrong
Height = wrong

The use of uppercase letters in tags, syles, and attributes is deprecated by the W3C standards. They will fail when used with future browser versions. Get used to it now, so you don't suddenly have to do a ton of work on your pages later.

Most browsers on UNIX servers already fail when given the wrong case. UNIX has no automatic case conversion.

IE is not following the W3C standard, and wrongly makes these case-insensitive.

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ashneet commented: Great and well explained +3

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Thoughts Of The Day.

Actions speak louder than words, but politicians won't shut up.

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MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Things that annoy you.

My version of that is Styrofoam-to-Styrofoam or Styrofoam-to-cardboard.

That's a bad case of the squeebies.

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maravich12 commented: cool sig +2

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Global warming!!

Infact i think he made some very good arguments against global warming.

Actually, I haven't. My arguments are that their arguments are not valid. We may be having global warming. But the arguments proffered by Al Gore and his henchmen are not valid.

One interesting fact is that Mars is also experiencing a melting of icecaps. This tends to indicate that any global warming has an external cause.

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Dave Sinkula commented: Heretic! ;) +11

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: change input's bg image with js

You need an id on the same object with someclass. That id becomes the target of the assignment statement:

function changeSrc(clicked)
{
changeme.backgroundImage = 'someotherimage.someformat')
}

Put both the class and the id in the object with the background

<body class="someclass" id="changeme">

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MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Funny headlines I collected

Funny headlines and newspaper misprints I collected:

Woman collides with police car.
Goliath falls in Cup.
Vaccinations available for whopping couch.
17 remain dead in morgue shooting spree.
Experienced bricklayer and hog carrier wanted.
Specter objects to bill's provision
Shooting reported at firing range
The Plaintiff does not know the whereabouts of the defendant, Southern Pacific Bank.
Stuff happens, but it won't happen quite as often if we read what we wrote.
An unmarked detective's car was parked on the corner.
The bride arrived in a limousine wearing a minidress and a veil. (poor car)
The ship was a floating hotel, with a grand piano made of aluminum with large windows.
Purdue rains as Big Ten champions.
Meeting on open meetings is closed.
Women banging children into the world should know these things.
Blaze destroys fire station.
Space began with the "big band."
His father was driving, and his father was in the passenger seat.
The horoscopes in Thursday's paper accurately predicted the future. They were today's horoscopes by mistake.
Red tape holds up new bridge
The barge spilled hundreds of thousands of asphalt.
All of the sexual harassment papers were provided by city hall. boop.
The Emergency Planning Committee is open during norman business hours.
Weight watchers should use the wide doors at the side entrance.
Identity theft - work at home - set …

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lasher511 commented: well done a good friday laugh +2

christina>you commented: haha +18

Aia commented: Thank you ;) +6

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Things that annoy you.

The 20 things I dislike most:

Promotion of sinful activity by government and by Hollywodd
Daylight Saving Time (The time change twice a year)
The State favoring the religions of Atheism, Environmentalism, and PC
Government taking property from poor people to satisfy tax debts or mortgages.
Bicycle riders causing hazards by breaking traffic rules
Perfume and chewing gum at public events (my allergies)
Chewing gum displays in the checkout lanes (allergy)
Politicians who think it is necessary to cheat to win elections
The unfair Plurality Voting System (and its use in political polls too)
More than 10 percent of income taxed away (only workers really pay taxes)
Lying politicians.
Untrained politicians making traffic laws
Government overregulation
Government spending on nonessentials (e.g. new pro sports arenas)
Monopolies and monopoly powers, including copyrights, patents, exclusive contracts, and copy protection
Microsoft changing the operating system every three years
Scents in every home product (allergy)
Government banning products
Companies discontinuing products
Minimum orders (In order to get 4, you have to buy 1000)

In addition, I have a few new ones:
- Bad science
- Moving ads on web pages
- Computer watermarks behind text
- Constant change in computer operating systems and programming languages (e.g. Microsoft)
- The fact that all HR people are so right brained that they can't correctly hire a left-brained job
- The very existence of landlords
- People hating Christians because they are required to tell others about …

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Aia commented: good_rep++; +5

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

18 Years Ago

Re: Icons at left of list of Threads

Why did you get rid of the menu? I didn't know what any of them except the fire meant.

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Danarchy commented: I still don't know what some of the icons mean. I thought there used to be a list at the bottom that explained them. +5

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

18 Years Ago

Re: Group seeks Chimp's Rights

If the chimps want special rights, let them compose and submit their own writs to the judges.

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EnderX commented: Excellent Logic. +1

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

18 Years Ago

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

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster

18 Years Ago

Re: Slowness in replying to threads?

Yes, at times, specifically: 4-6 A.M. (Eastern)

Usually a shutdown at a specific time like that is scheduled system downtime or hard disk backup time.

It could be either the Daniweb server, or your own ISP.

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mattyd commented: adServer info\ slowness # thanks much--mattyD +5