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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 12/29/06 21:37
Highlander wrote:
> McKirahan,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions!
>
> Andy Dingley wrote:
>> Highlander wrote:
>>> Consider the following HTA:
>> I'd rather not. You posted it to c.i.w.a.h where it's off-topic
>
> Sherm Pendley wrote:
>> You cross-posted this to three groups; one of them is relevant, the others
>> are not. Followups set.
>
> ...
>
> Off-topic? Not relevant?
>
> A search in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html for the word "HTA":
> 39 results
A topic of discussion doesn't become on-topic in a newsgroup because
people may mention it in passing while discussing something that is on
topic, or because other people have already raised it in off-topic postings.
HTA is for running apps on local computers. C.i.w.a.h is about authoring
HTML for the Web. They're mutually exclusive.
> A search in alt.html for the word "HTA":
> 70 results
Alt.html is about anything HTML related, so I don't see any problem with
bringing up the topic there. OMMV (others' mileage may vary).
>
> Furthermore, a "date picker" pulldown menu of Month/Day/Year selections
> is a *very* common element on websites;
but not as an HTA.
> so it stands to reason that
> HTML related newsgroups (such as these two that I posted to) just might
> have info on this type of dropdown.
People in a wine newsgroup might know something about cheese, but ask a
cheese-related question in a cheese newsgroup and leave the wine
newsgroup for people to discuss wine. Otherwise the point of having
separate newsgroups for so many topics is kind of defeated.
It's one thing if there isn't *any* obvious newsgroup to post a question
in, or if a newsgroup specific to the subject exists but has no traffic
other than spammers. But this isn't one of those situations. Frankly, I
would think that one of the microsoft.* newsgroups related to
"inetexplorer" would be the best bet.
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