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Posted by Michael Winter on 10/27/28 11:21
On 14/07/2005 23:41, ^reaper^ wrote:
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> Thanks for the input, Michael.
You're welcome, though Mike will do. :)
> Wrt to the other (globals, arrays, and bears, oh my!), making the changes you
> suggested makes little sense in context of requiring more complex
> serverside processing.
Moving to an Object instance is about as complicated as changing:
... = new Array(); or = [];
to:
... = new Object(); or = {};
I'd double check, but I can't seem to access anything at the moment, so
I'd take that with a pince of salt for now if I were you.
Creating a proper Map object would be more involved, yes, but a more
robust solution.
> Furhtermore, I'm not seeing where replacing the canvas overlay divs
> with a table buys me anything.
I like structure. Don't know about you. Using a table would also allow
you to remove the id attributes as you could use the cells and rows
collections to access the elements like an array. If the 'addresses' are
computed server-side, rather than a long list of literal y0x0, y0x1,
etc., this approach would be similar and the calculation could be
performed on the client.
> Whereas for teh table, I would need to set row height and column
> width for each cell (which is, of course also easily computed)
Despite the comment in brackets, you seem to be painting that as more
complicated than it is. As I recall, the symbol table is evenly spaced,
so the columns would be of equal width, and you know exactly how high
each row needs to be. As I see it, you don't need to do any calculations
at all.
> In fact, I did just such a thing for the menu (e.g., using a table for teh overlay). As you can see, when viewing teh
> page in firefox, the table ends up scrunched to the left (even with
> explicitly stated table & column widths).
The problem, as I said in my previous post, is that the positioned
container DIV element doesn't have an explicit width. Without being able
to see the markup again I can't say exactly why that's so.
Mike
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