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Posted by David Segall on 08/07/06 14:35
"coop" <cooper.tim@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>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?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adrienne Boswell at Home
>> Arbpen Web Site Design Services
>> http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
>> 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.
Don't. The group has several hard-line web police but they really know
their stuff. As you have seen, you will get an appropriate answer from
someone more helpful. One day you will appreciate the knowledge and,
by then, you will be impervious to the pomposity that accompanies it.
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