Date: 10/31/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, html, java

i found this great little javascript library: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/

take a look at the test page for what you can do: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/tests.html

very 37signals types of effects and cross browser compatible (tho i'm sure it won't work on ie for the mac, but i can't prove it since my own copy of ie won't open) and easy to implement.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1007485.html

Date: 11/01/05 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html, web, microsoft

Does anyone here use Textwrangler for making websites? Is there a way to download one for a PC (because I think this program is for Mac)? I am trying to finish an assignment at home, but I don't have Textwrangler. All I need are the tags which Textwrangler gives you when you create a new document. These tags are html beginning and end tags, head tags, as well as meta and something else, I think. I need these tags for my website to be validated by http://validator.w3.org

Whenever I try to use Notepad or Microsoft Frontpage to make a website, it never validates. There is always something wrong with the meta tags or encoding tags--things like that.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/htmlhelp/2186005.html

Date: 11/02/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, html

Although it works, I consider it a bit clunky.

What I have is a form that accepts certain data, and then uses that data to build an HTML page (it's for HTML formatted marketing emails).

The form's easy enough, as is the validation, but the problem is this:

I have a table that needs to be built into the page, and the user needs to select how many rows and columns the table is going to be. Currently I have a structure like this

Date: 11/02/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, software, html, technology, database, sql, security, apache

This is a follow up to the post I made before regarding this database connection problem I'm having. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/359304.html)

After receiving responses from people that suggested I install the MS SQL PHP functions, I inquired with my IT contact (we are a large institution and therefore have ridiculous amounts of red tape to deal with) as to whether or not they could be installed.

This is what I was told:

We do not support MSSQL odbc connection on our Sun Solaris server running Apache. mssql_connect would require a staff member who knows the technology, purchase of licensed software (which we do not have), and recompiling of Apache that may potentially break other users code. Also, there would be MSSQL security issues if we were to open up or authorize connections to it from our Sun Server, we host a variety of departmental databases on that SQL server, that could be a potentially serious problem if any of our other databases we to be compromised. Sorry for the inconvenience, but that is the story.


If I can't connect to that database, the entire project that I'm working on is going to be fucked and I have a 11/21 deadline. I need to know two things, if any of you can discern from all of this:

1. Is it EVER going to be possible for me to connect to that database? Or should I just stop wasting my time and create another for my personal use?

2. If it is possible, can someone tell me how? :(

Thanks everyone.

Cross posted to PHP/MySQL communities.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/263959.html

Date: 11/02/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, software, html, technology, database, sql, security, apache

Edit: Thank you all for your help and suggestions. I had a meeting with my server administrators and have found that it would just be easier to dump and import the data into my own little MySQL database. But I learned a lot in this process thanks to you all!

This is a follow up to the post I made before regarding this database connection problem I'm having. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/359304.html)

After receiving responses from people that suggested I install the MS SQL PHP functions, I inquired with my IT contact (we are a large institution and therefore have ridiculous amounts of red tape to deal with) as to whether or not they could be installed.

This is what I was told:

We do not support MSSQL odbc connection on our Sun Solaris server running Apache. mssql_connect would require a staff member who knows the technology, purchase of licensed software (which we do not have), and recompiling of Apache that may potentially break other users code. Also, there would be MSSQL security issues if we were to open up or authorize connections to it from our Sun Server, we host a variety of departmental databases on that SQL server, that could be a potentially serious problem if any of our other databases we to be compromised. Sorry for the inconvenience, but that is the story.


If I can't connect to that database, the entire project that I'm working on is going to be fucked and I have a 11/21 deadline. I need to know two things, if any of you can discern from all of this:

1. Is it EVER going to be possible for me to connect to that database? Or should I just stop wasting my time and create another for my personal use?

2. If it is possible, can someone tell me how? :(

Thanks everyone.

Cross posted to PHP/MySQL communities.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/363248.html

Date: 11/04/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, java

I'm coding in HTML and I want to call two (or more) javascript functions from the BODY tag. how do I seperate the two things properly. e.g.:


body onLoad="function('etc')", "MM_preloadImages('image.gif')">


is a comma enough between the two? when I switch to code view in Dreamweaver, the whole tag turns yellow as if it's not quite right. It works well enough, but I want it to be done the correct way.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/264934.html

Date: 11/04/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, java, web

Hey all,

Got a question which to some of you knowledgeable peeps out there might seem silly and foolish, then again it may not.

As there are always the punters out there who continue to set their computers to lower resolutions than those considered "acceptable", is there a script (be it HTML, Java etc) which detects the resolution of the viewers PC and "suggests" or auto-loads the most specific one from a collection of differently rendered web pages?

Thanks and apologies if this is a silly question.

Cheers

M

x-posted to webdev

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1011395.html

Date: 11/04/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, java, web

Hey all,

Got a question which to some of you knowledgeable peeps out there might seem silly and foolish, then again it may not.

As there are always the punters out there who continue to set their computers to lower resolutions than those considered "acceptable", is there a script (be it HTML, Java etc) which detects the resolution of the viewers PC and "suggests" or auto-loads the most specific one from a collection of differently rendered web pages?

Thanks and apologies if this is a silly question.

Cheers

M

x-posted to webdesign

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/265658.html

Date: 11/04/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, spam, google

Don't worry, it's for an internal thing.

How do you make an HTML email?
I mean more than just setting your email program to "Send email as HTML" - but I need to send this stupid email newsletter with links, graphics and a background image (on the table, since I've read that email programs often/usually strip the and tags), and google is inundated with stupid guides to stupid products, and not the actual task.
Don't worry, it's for an internal newsletter, not...really...spam.

I'm using MS Outlook.

just to say it some more:
stupid stupid and stupid...

But thank you.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1011617.html

Date: 11/06/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, google

Can anyone recommend a good place to find graphics for use in an HTML editor? I need graphics to act as buttons (for formatting text). I don't really care about the style (like icons, or like the buttons in a word processor... doesn't matter) though if there are corresponding graphics to use to make rollover buttons would be even better. I'm stuck finding what I need on google. I'd be most grateful for linkage. Thanks :)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1011862.html

Date: 11/06/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, asp, web, spam

I found these 2 articles on deli.cio.us and I think they are very useful tips to freelancers or people working for web dev companies/agencies:

http://www.howdesign.com/db/features/whatclientswant.asp
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/how_to_spend_yo.html

Also, if anyone is looking for a great project management tool, I have to say just how happy I am with basecamp. My partner and I used it free for a month and have now signed on with them to keep track of our multiple projects. This isn't spam, I'm just so happy that I've found an easy way to stay organized!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1012114.html

Date: 11/07/05 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html

Okay, so I redid my LJ and I added new stuff to it, but now my calander isn't showing up... Is there a html code for it?, because in my override box (because I'm lame and still use the S1 style), I don't see anything referring to the calander...

Any help would be appriciated!!!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/htmlhelp/2189982.html

Date: 11/07/05 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: html, java

so what i'm trying to do is this:

i have a page with javascript enabled. when the checkboxes are checked, different cells pop up, for instance this one:


this button, however, does nothing. what i want it to do, is take the text and display it down in a new cell (where the "this is ridiculous" text is now):


i am having trouble figuring out how to pass the text into the html.
it's blowing my mind.

if you could help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. :)

thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/javascript/82608.html

Date: 11/10/05 (C Sharp)    Keywords: html, web

I'm writing a program that basically is supposed to go to a site that has a mailing list archive on it and download each message from the archive, month by month. I've got all the parsing stuff taken care of to where it's getting the correct links and downloading the correct messages, etc. I've also got it so that it'll download about 6 months of messages. After that, I get a socket exception with the message "A system call that should never fail has failed." Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

More details
I'm using the System.Net.WebClient class to get the content of the page. First I get the content of the index page and parse the relevant links out. Here's the index page, I'm grabbing the links that say "date."

After that, it goes into each month's archive and downloads all of the messages and writes them to a text file(after stripping out the html, etc.)

If I just do 5-7 months, they work just fine. After that, I get the following error with the following stacktrace:

Unable to read data from the transport connection: A system call that should never fail has failed.   at System.Net.ConnectStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
   at System.IO.StreamReader.ReadBuffer()
   at System.IO.StreamReader.ReadToEnd()
   at MListGetter.Form1.getPage(String address) <==this method should download the message
   at MListGetter.Form1.getMsgText(String url)
   at MListGetter.Form1.processMonth(String dateline, String url)
   at MListGetter.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)

private string getPage(string address)
{
	System.Net.WebClient cl =  new System.Net.WebClient();

	System.IO.Stream s = cl.OpenRead(address);
	System.IO.StreamReader sr =  new System.IO.StreamReader(s);
			
	string res = sr.ReadToEnd();
			
	sr.Close();
	s.Close();
	cl.Dispose();
			

	return res.Replace("\n", "\r\n");
}

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/csharp/41360.html

Date: 11/11/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, xml, java, microsoft

I'm building a page and plan on using some Asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX without the XML basically). Anywho, the problem is, it just doesn't seem to work at all.

I've slowly worked my way through the code and I can't figure out for the life of me why it's just not working. I've tried using alert() to show my progress through the script, but it won't even show the first alert() which I had put before the function even creates it's first variable. I remove the code and leave only the alert() and it pops up.

function ajaxLauncher()
{
  var args = ajaxLauncher.arguments;
  var httpRequest = (window.ActiveXObject) ? new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") : new XMLHTTPRequest();

  switch (args[0])
  {
    case "begin_exe"
    {
      alert("Working!");
      setContent();
      ajaxLauncher("show_content", "mainContent[0]", "content");
      break;
    }
    case "show_content"
    {
      if (httpRequest)
      {
        httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function()
        {
          if (httpRequest.readyState == 4 && httpRequest.Status == 200)
          {
            container = document.getElementByID(args[2]);
            container.innerHTML = httpRequest.responseText;
          }
        }
        httpRequest.open("GET", args[1], true);
        httpRequest.send(null);
      }
      break;
    }
  }
}

function setContent()
{
  mainContent = new Array();
    mainContent[0] = "index2.html";
}

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1014912.html

Date: 11/11/05 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html, web

i know this isn't an HTML question, but if someone could help, i'd be very thankful.


i've seen many layouts with an image from kurt halsey and i want to make one, but the thing is, i don't know how to save the image onto my computer. usually i just right click and copt, but his site uses macromedia flash player and i can't get the image. any help as to how to save it would be greatly appriciated.


p.s. his site says that his images can be used for personal projects and websites, so it wouldn't be anything bad to use it.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/htmlhelp/2194876.html

Date: 11/12/05 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: html, java

I have a big problem.

I want to load a new page in Javascript, but I do not want to replace the current history entry. I want to add a new URL to the history at the same time. Do you know how to do that? Is it possible?

This is the problem:

location.href = "file:///C:/test.html?page=5";

This command replaces the page but does not add a new entry to history. It overwrites the current history. How do load a page and add a new history entry at the same time?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/javascript/83181.html

Date: 11/12/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, google

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of that extension for DW8? Apparently it comes packaged with MX (and if it comes with 8 as well then I can't find it :/). I've also looked on the Macromedia Exchange, but couldn't find it there either.

If not, can someone recommend a free or low cost DHTML menu extension for DW8? I've Googled a few, but can't decide which one to go with.

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1015299.html

Date: 11/12/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: css, html, web

Ok, please don't laugh, but I have had this dream of starting my own Web Design business. I don't have much actual experience, but I have taken a TON of classes on HTML, CSS, and Web Design. I feel I am ready to start, but I don't know how or where. I have my own domain, etc, but I don't know what to do with it.
Is there anyone who can tell me / show me what I need to do from here?

Thanks SO much!

Robin

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/268848.html

Date: 11/14/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: css, html, java

Behaviour promotes itself as "the missing link for your AJAX apps". It allows you to use CSS selectors (like id or class) to apply Javascript behaviors to your HTML elements. No more embedding Javascript tags in your HTML. What Behaviour (note the British spelling) does is allow you to define rules where you associate javascript [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/developing-clean-ajax-javascript-driven-websites-say-no-to-tag-soup/