Date: 06/21/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, html

Hey everyone,

Here's what happened. I was getting ready to make an image of my (XP Pro) workstation with Novell's Zenworks 7 in order to re-partition my hard drive so I can install and play with Vista in a dual-boot environment, without actually having to count on vista as my main OS.

I have two 80gb SATA drives (not running RAID, IDE Emulation) in my workstation, I Copied all my personal information to the second hard drive, then pushed an image of the workstation up to the network (no need to sysprep if it's coming back down on the same workstation), re-partitioned my main drive into two 40gb partitions, and pulled the image back down on one of them.

The workstation booted up just peachy with XP booting just fine and all my programs in tact, however, the second drive that I had moved all the information to was no longer available. In the disk manager it said the data was 'unallocated' so I made it active (without formatting it) and it is being recognized as a raw partition right now, but keeps asking me to format it when ever I try to access it.

Now here's the question: did some googling and found this http://www.safe-install.com/programs/undelete-ntfs-partition-data.html which after running, will detect the files on the drive, HOWEVER, it is a trial version and I cannot actually restore the files without buying the software. Does anyone know of any Freeware that will allow me to restore NTFS files from a corrupted drive?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1082394.html

Date: 06/26/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html

This is driving me nuts, and I hope someone can help me. I've designed an HTML email newsletter. It's not overly image-laden, and all the images are optimized GIFs hosted on a server and called by URL. I didn't get fancy with formatting - just used a background color in one of the td's, and some color and font stuff to differentiate between two levels of headlines.

The problem is, it's still 159K when it hits the inbox. I've streamlined as much as I know how. Now, here's the really weird part. There's a newsletter I subscribe to that has a fairly similar design, but with a ton of images... and it regularly hits only about 40K in my inbox. So, as a test, I copied the source code from the latest edition of that newsletter, put it into a file on my computer, and sent the newsletter to myself. It showed up at 679K!

So apparently, there's some kind of compression happening somewhere when they send it out (or else Outlook Express is fattening when used as the sender).

What the heck am I missing here?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1271005.html

Date: 06/26/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, web, google

This is driving me nuts, and I hope someone can help me. I've designed an HTML email newsletter. It's not overly image-laden, and all the images are optimized GIFs stored on a server and called by URL. I didn't get fancy with formatting - just used a background color in one of the td's, and some color and font stuff to differentiate between two levels of headlines.

The problem is, it's still 159K when it hits the inbox, and I can't understand why it's so large. I've streamlined as much as I know how. Now, here's the really weird part, I think. There's a newsletter I subscribe to that has a fairly similar design, but with a ton of images... and it regularly hits only about 40K in my inbox. So, as a test, I copied the source code from the latest edition of that newsletter, put it into a file on my computer, and sent the newsletter to myself. It showed up at 679K!

So apparently, there's some kind of compression happening somewhere when they send it out (or else Outlook Express is fattening when used as the sender).

What the heck am I missing here?

ETA: I have done exhaustive Google searches trying to find the answer to this question and have pored over every email newsletter design site I can find. All my efforts have come to naught.

X-posted to webdesign

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1084363.html

Date: 06/27/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html

3DMark06 8500GT and 8600GT scores
http://nvnews.net/reviews/inno3d_8600gt_8500gt/page_2.shtml

My Radeon X1900GT score (non-overclocked, everything stock. 4816 3D Marks, if the link doesn't work)
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2315942

When I saw it, I was surprised. Considering how high 8800 cards scores, the 8600GT scores are pretty horrid. It'd have to overclock to beat out my X1900GT. This is not to mention that my CPU was running slower than the test rig on the review site (2.66GHz versus 3GHz overclock on theirs)

Man. It's like an 8600GT would be a downgrade for me.

Even for the 8600GTS, it looks like I might be able to live without it too since the difference isn't quantum leap:
http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/msi_geforce_nx8600gts/index.shtml

This leaves the 8800GTS, which costs a whole lot more.

Things just don't look heart-attack exciting from where I am right now.

I won't even talk about the 8500GT.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1084890.html

Date: 06/27/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: css, html, xml, java, web

I have a big web application, written in JS,CSS,XML/XSLT.
Output size of HTML is 1.5Mb, ~700Kb javascript code, ~400Kb CSS code.

When user open new tab (or use Quick-Tab feat.) IE try to generate thumbnail for this page. But page is so big, so IE freeze for 5-15 minutes. It's awfully. Solution of this problem is hiding all content (style.display = 'none' on general wrapper div.), this code was wrote in onblur event of the body element.

Sometimes this solution works, sometimes not.

Actually, the question:
How I can catch tab-changing event? (seems to be eq. with body onblur).

Thanks for advice.
Best regards, Gleb M. Borisov.

Update: Problem partially solved with code below:

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/418200.html

Date: 06/28/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

First of all, I just want to say... hi, and I love you guys. I always come to this community to ask (often dumb) questions about HTML or web design and 99/100 times get the answer I need. I've never really said how much I appreciate everyone in this community and am so glad it exists!! So thanks!!

That said, here goes another (possibly dumb) question...
I have a blog at Blogger.com. I would like the most recent 2 or 3 headlines and maybe a snippet of the latest blog post to appear on the home page of a separate website I own. Is there a simple way of getting this to happen?

(As a note, I really don't care if the blog content is on Blogger.com or any other blog site, or even if I just type it into a txt doc... and I also don't care how many headlines show up or how much of the blog post is on the home page... so basically, I just want automatically updated blog content on my site that is integrated into the design of the home page.)

Anyone done this before? Does FeedBurner.com help people do this sort of thing?

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1272479.html

Date: 07/01/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, web

Recently I have notices a rather annoying "feature" of Firefox 2. When going to certain websites the text that is around a link or title is overlapping and rendered quite unreadable. For example, when I go to Wikipedia normally I see this but when I log into my profile, which is using the "Nostalgia" skin, I see this. If memory serves me, I remember something similar to this happening in the earlier versions of Firefox that I had used (ver 1.0.x), but that was a problem with tables if I remember right, not with links/titles. I have found some information about this here, which appears to be similar, but that problem appears to be with displaying things in tables. This does not happen when I log into IE7. This only happens on certain pages, which taking the Wikipedia example, makes me think it is with some sort of html coding (though I'm not sure as to what plus if it is improper coding, Wikipedia seems to be a rather popular page to have bad coding). If anyone has any suggestions/fixes, I'll be happy to hear it. I almost forgot as well, some pages have text that you can't display because it is off the end of the page. Even making the screen bigger of maximizing doesn't help.

Oh yes, i'm running Firefox 2.0.4 now, which I just upgraded from 2.0.2. After the upgrade it did the same thing. I also tried turning off the "linkification" plug-in, and turning off Greasemonkey. Neither worked.

P.S. This problem also crops up when I view a preview of this entry.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1085488.html

Date: 07/02/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: rss, html, web

Here is a simple one line change which will make your webpages viewable well on iPhone and Blackberry. Add the following to your HTML HEAD section: Apple is using the following on their RSS reader website: The other parameters you can experiment with: initial-scale (first loaded scale), user-scalable (boolean), minimum-scale (default 0.25), maximum-scale (default 1.6). There is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/iphone-hack-make-your-website-readable-on-iphone-blackberry/

Date: 07/02/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, html, java

i was wondering if there was a pure css way to make an image popup. i've seen a few on cssplay.co.uk and dynamicdrive.com but i want something that will pop up over the rest of the site with the ability to put html underneath it if i want to (captions with links maybe). i was wondering if anybody here knew of anything that i didn't. i'm currently using javascript to achieve the results i want and i'm not happy with how it has been working. the page is http://1919hemphill.org/calendar.html if you want to know what i'm talking about.

thanks a lot in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1276339.html

Date: 07/04/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, programming, html, web

Does anyone know a web site that shows the market share of php versus the other main web languages? The only one i could find is one based on book sales:(


http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/programming_language_trends_1.html

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/574702.html

Date: 07/06/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, html, xml, database, java, microsoft

I'm trying to teach myself how to use Ajax with PHP. It's been years since I've used JavaScript for anything so I'm beyond rusty.

I've been using the Apress Beginning Ajax with PHP book and I've been learning quite a bit, but I haven't found a single code sample from that book that actually worked the way it was written.

So, I come to you with my situation: Right now, I have one field in a form. There will eventually be more, but I'd like to see if I can get just a single field to work for me before I start jumping ahead. Anyway: 1 field on a form, and one submit button. In theory, when I click on the submit button, I'd like the value to be input into the database.

I have bigger ideas for what I want to do with this project, but for now, just a little success with the database updating would be nice.

Note: The code is based off of a contacts form I found on the internet. I figured for learning purposes, it would be a good way to start, that way, once I figure out the trick to making ajax do what I want in this instance, I can write my own.

  
    
    
    
    
  
  
    
AJAX Recipe Form
    

      Inserting recipe via slick AJAX. Hold on just a sec…
      
    
    

      Success! Your recipe has been sent.
    
    

      

        

          Recipe Name:
          
          
            
          
        
      
    
  

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1278123.html

Date: 07/06/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: css, html, java

If you thought HTML tables were passe, think again. Show me how you can draw the same picture using only CSS; I will then use it on my blog I think HTML tables are as useful as ever in representing tabular / spreadsheet type data. While recent Javascript libraries like YUI and Ext uses [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-draw-pretty-girls-with-html-table/

Date: 07/08/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, html, database, sql

I'm sorry to disturb, I'm new in php and I have a trouble with this code:


    mysql_connect($host,$utente,$passwd) or die("Connessione non riuscita: " . mysql_error());
    mysql_select_db("news") or die("Selezione del database non riuscita");
    $np = "SELECT * FROM persona";
    if($riga = mysql_fetch_array($np,MYSQL_ASSOC)) {                        
                                echo "" . $riga["Nome"] . " - " . $riga["Cognome"] . " - " . $riga["Organizzazione"];
                                selected ($riga["id_persona"]);
                                    echo "";
                                  }
    while($riga = mysql_fetch_array($np,MYSQL_ASSOC)) {                        
                                echo "" . $riga["Nome"] . " - " . $riga["Cognome"] . " - " . $riga["Organizzazione"];
                                    echo "";
                                  }
?>
 

It has to extract a row from a mysql database and make a html select of the value id_persona displaying also the value of the other fields (Nome, Cognome, Organizzazione) but it don't works properly. Choices on select are displayed like in the attached photo instead with the correct data .

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/575883.html

Date: 07/09/07 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: browser, html, xml

I have a deceptively simple problem.

Using an XMLHTTPRequest object, I pull data off the server and grab it in the form of an XML Document object. As it happens, this data is actually well-formed XHTML. After I do some processing on this XML Document, I merely want to insert it into an output DIV tag.

My initial instinct was to be as simple as possible: divTag.appendChild(xmlDoc);

You might have already guessed- that doesn't work. Or, more accurately, it does work, exactly as it should. The code above appends the XML document object as XML data to the DIV. Which means the XHTML tags contained in the XML document are not interpreted by the browser.

So, for illustration, I have an XML document like this:

  
Some data
  
Some more data

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/135669.html

Date: 07/10/07 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: browser, html, asp, web

Ok, this is going to sound really weird, and it's kind of hard to explain, but is there a way to take an ASPX file, and load its contents, allowing you to use code behind, without a browser?

Basically here is what I need to do:

I have an AJAX enabled web page, and I need to be able to use a lot of the AJAX enabled controls like the CollapsiblePanelExtender. The thing is, speed of loading the page is paramount, and even though the final data isn't that much, the business code to massage the data is huge and actually time consuming. What I need to be able to do, is on a daily basis, have a service that generates the page, and then stores the page, with the massaged data, to the DB. Then what happens is when the "page" itself is called by a user, it goes to the DB and gets my "aspx" code, and sends that down. It can't be generated HTML. Not going to get in to "why" here.

Basically the "aspx" page would have asp controls on it like labels, but the text itself is already saved, and there is no need for code behind to generate the data.

It's kind of like a template in that I'd have an ASPX page that is my "template" The service would then load the page as if it was in a browser, and it would go through and set the "Text" values on the Labels, text boxes, etc. etc. based on the data from the DB, but then instead of saving the generated HTML, it would just modify the ASPX itself, and I could then save that ASPX code to the DB.

Currently what I do is create an ASPX page, and then rename it to a text file. The labels don't have any IDs or anything, and then I just go through and replace everything as text.

I know there has to be a better way to do this. Any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/90433.html

Date: 07/10/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, browser, html, database, sql

Ok, so I have a fully UTF-8 MySQL database with a fully UTF-8 table. I have a php page which has "" at the top of the html section and "mysql_set_charset("utf8");" after my connection (it's php 2.2.3, so that's more or less the same as "mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");).  I have all my php.ini mbstring stuff configured for utf-8:

mbstring.language = Neutral
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8
mbstring.http_input = auto
mbstring.encoding_translation = On
mbstring.detect_order = auto

and for what it's worth, echo mb_internal_encoding(); reports "UTF-8".

when I run a query that pulls out (in this case, Japanese, but say any) UTF8 data, it displays properly in MySQL Query Browser.  With php in the above context however, it does not.  Instead, it prints a ? corresponding to each character.  When I use mb_detect_encoding(); on each such string, it tells me they are encoded as ASCII.  The nearest I can tell is that somewhere between using mysql_query() and mysql_fetch_row(), things got messed up.  Is this a bug?  Is there something I'm missing?  Any clues? Help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/420578.html

Date: 07/11/07 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: html

These are nice:
http://operawatch.com/news/2007/07/tip-open-pages-in-firefox-and-internet-explorer-directly-from-opera.html

I can't find how to set up buttons like that. Is there some documentation I've missed?
Here's some stuff on how to do buttons: http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/dndbuttons.html

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/66252.html

Date: 07/11/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

Hello all. :)

I am just putting this out there.

I have no web design skills. Well, maybe basic html. I'd love to do a trade with someone though who is a designer. I could offer photography and custom cyanotypes in return for website construction. I'm looking for a site that will be used for my import business. So sales, travel blog.

Some of my images can be found at:

http://latentimages.deviantart.com/

If anyone is interested just drop me a note on my journal.

Thanks. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1280633.html

Date: 07/11/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, html, web

EDIT: Okay, I'm slowly making headway, I forgot about floats and clears and all that fun stuff, and I managed to get the layout to work the way I want in IE7, but of course, as these things happen, the codes aren't working in Firefox. These two anamolies are what are happening in that browser:
1) When I make the entry div id float left, the background inherent in the pagebody div id that contains the entries and the sidebar disappears.
2) The background from pagebody won't repeat as the sidebar increases in size. The background WILL repeat, however, if the entries increase in size. I don't understand why it will for one and not the other when both are contained within the same tags.

It also seems that while the sidebar will now align vertically with the entries in IE7 it won't on Firefox.

Any help appreciated, the files to take a gander at are:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/index.txt
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/leaf.css

(Also I realize the bugs more than likely come from the IE side of things, but IE is what I'm used to working in and generally I don't have such aggravating problems between browsers so I'm at a pretty good loss.)


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Allrighty, so I'm making a journal layout, conceivably I want it to look like this:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/
And it (seems) to be working fine as it is, but I was just wondering a couple of things about CSS. Everything in that layout essentially is positioned relatively, so it can float and recenter itself depending on a person's browser size. However, in that particular version of the layout the sidebar is positioned absolutely else it would look like this:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/index2.html
The sidebar is shoved under the entries, which makes logical sense because it's floating relative to the position of the entry tags, however is there a way to have the sidebar remain relative in its position but have it look like it does in the version it's absolutely positioned?

And finally, one more question, concerning the version with the sidebar positioned absolutely, if the sidebar is longer than the entries, the background pattern I have repeating in the pagebody tag won't extend along with the sidebar, even though I have the sidebar contained within the pagebody. IE it looks like this. I assume it's because of the absolute position, but again I was wondering if there was a way to fix it that I'm just not figuring out.

I am trying to keep the CSS as simple as possible because I was making layouts with the common user in mind so they can easily implement it instead of having 20 pages of confusing codes, so if there are solutions to these problems that are simple I'd be very excited to use them. I wouldn't be surprised if the solutions are so simple I merely looked them over, which is so often the case, amirite.

Thanks for any help.
Oh and to make your life easier:
Here's the CSS for the position:absolute sidebar layout
and here's the CSS for the position:relative sidebar layout
It's a bit messy, I haven't streamlined it yet, sorry.

(Also, let me apologize if my "lingo" isn't the "official jive" of the webdeveloper world, and I hope that I'm making some sense. If you need me to clarify just ask.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1280341.html

Date: 07/13/07 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: programming, browser, html, asp, java, web, seo

I wrote a JavaScript/XHTML based Pong game- mostly a proof of concept. I'm going to use this as the base of a browser-based Mario Brothers clone (not SUPER Mario- I'm not going to make this damn thing scroll if I can help it). That's a long-run project though. For now, I've got some basic plumbing done. It's got some bugs, etc- but I figured that since I had a (mostly) working library, I'd post my work so far, and share out the code.

Take the game for a spin, and grab the code.

Masturbatory Pong - My Design

General Design Goals

Program Components

Core

Animator

Sprite.js

The Sprite - General

The Sprite - Frames

The Sprite - Aspects

The Sprite - Rendering

motion.js

Movement - General

Motion - LinearScrollMotionProvider

Motion - MouseMotionProvider

clock.js

Game

Paddles

Ball

Pong

Problems

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/135865.html