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Posted by coop on 08/07/06 13:41
Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed cooper.tim@gmail.com writing in
> news:1154869380.669209.166620@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:
>
> Please stop top posting ...
>
> >
> > Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> >> cooper.tim@gmail.com <cooper.tim@gmail.com> scripsit:
> >>
> >> > Here's a nice easy one for you (I'm just learning about HTML so
> >> > it's probably an obvious answer):
> >>
> >> Yum!
> >>
> >> > I want to have a table that consists of 100 x 100 cells,
> >>
> >> Stop wanting that. Vow, that was _really_ easy. Assuming you want to
> >> get the _right_ answer, that is.
> >>
> >> > each cell containing a tiny image.
> >>
> >> Thank you for making it clear that you should stop wanting that.
> >>
> >> If problems remain, post the URL.
> >>
> > Sorry but I don't really understand your reply. I was looking for
> > some help or advice on whether what I want to do is possible. I want
> > to know if it's possible to create a table of say 10000 cells
> > (100x100) where each cell doesn't have a fixed size, so the table
> > always fills the window, no matter the size of the window. This is so
> > I can have a mosaic of pictures.
>
> Jukka did give advice, he said "Stop wanting that", his advice meaning
> A) what you want to do is not a good idea.
> B) what you want to do does not happen that way you think it might.
>
> 1. Tables are meant for tabular data, not for positioning of elements.
> 2. Images don't behave that way. They do not grow of shrink in a browser
> the way they might on the desktop. A) browsers do a bad job of resizing,
> B) the image that is sent to the client is still the same size as it is
> on the server - so an image 100x100 although shown at 10x10 is still
> 100x100.
> 3. The complexity of what you want to do is insane. Do you really want
> to sit there and type <td width="10"><img src="img10.jpg" width="10"
> height="10" alt="Mosaic piece 1 of 10000"></td> 10000 times? And then
> expect the browser to display it without shutting itself or the users
> system down?
>
>
> --
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> Please respond to the group so others can share
I am just starting to teach myself a bit of HTML.
Adrienne - thankyou for explaining why my idea was misguided.
Jukka - I wanted some help. All I got was sarcasm. Pathetic.
Maybe next time I want a bit of help with something I'll go somewhere
else.
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