Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/02/06 15:48

WookieTim@gmail.com wrote:
>> Actually *who* are your responding to? It was 'numberwhun' who suggested
>> that another group would be better suited for your question, not Jukka
>> of which you directly replied to in the thread. But of course since you
>> *top posted* this is unclear. This is not Google Groups, it is usenet.
>>
>
> Let's see... Jukka proceeded to say that there were no stupid questions
> just stupid people, then proceeded to tell me to look less "Stupid".
> Yeah - that's really a great direct response to my question.

Yes, just underscored my point. When you stop top posting it clarifies
your response. Secondly if you look at Jukka's post the individual that
he was implying was stupid was *numberwhun* not *you*. It was numberwhun
who top posting he was commenting on, but maybe you should heed his
advice ;-)

>
>> Fine, however how do you expect anyone to reasonably diagnose your
>> problem with what you offered for evidenced? Certainly not a URL or code
>> to so we can actually see what you are doing! It is like calling a
>> doctor over the phone and saying, "Doctor it hurts when I do this".
>>
>> Just saying I have a Java applet and some JavaScript and a webpage and
>> this happens, be real!
>>
>
> The question was asked in regard to whether Java Applets completely
> reload when the style property of the <Div> element they are on has
> it's "Display" property changed. This is a rather simple question and
> should not need a whole lot of code - it was being asked whether anyone
> had seen this problem before. It turns out that it is not specific to
> my code but general accross all Javascript/HTML code.
>

Actually your said "in a table row" not a div. What elements, what
properties, and how you change their style and with which browsers can
be significant. It could have be a markup error elsewhere in the page
that *you* where unaware of that can cause display anomalies. Your
question was simply too vague to be of any use.

>
>> With respect to what markup? So I assume that your JavaScript (that you
>> did not show) on a page (that you did not reference) is changing the CSS
>> of some elements (that we cannot see) on this page (we also cannot see)
>> is used to create a 'tabbed' interface?
>>
>
> After the reception I recieved to my original post, why should I share
> code with you? If someone had ASKED, perhaps. However, I was
> immediately called stupid by multiple people. Perhaps next time, rather
> than say "You are stupid you should show us code" people in this group
> could say "Could you please share a representative bit of code so we
> can diagnose the problem?"
>

They did! Travis wrote:

"Wait!!!! There's the problem!! YOU are seeing the problem. WE are
not because you didn't give us a URL...."

That looks like a request to see your code to me. This may be your first
full times here, but to the regulars who constantly get vague question
from folk who will not show their code and yet *demand* we fix it for
them...

Well firstly this is not a help desk, this is Usenet for discussion.
Secondly, you ain't paying us, so your attitude is not conducive to
soliciting assistance from professional generous to offer a bit of their
experience to others. You don't like, well lump it! We do not have to
help you, go pay someone for help if you demand satisfaction.


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Take care,

Jonathan
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