Posted by Jeff Bowman on 12/23/06 02:50

"-Lost" <spam_ninjaREMOVEME@REMOVEMEcomcast.net> wrote in message
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> Well, people have been misusing tables for quite a few years so why stop
> now?

HeHeHe... :-)



> Seriously, if you are already playing about with CSS, why not just set the
> height via CSS?

Oh my! Last I heard it wasn't possible--this must be new news?

If there's actually a way to do it, I'd sure be pleased if you could send a
quick tip...



> Also, totally off the subject... what in the world is all that extraneous
> code for? I also do not understand why for such a small example you
> appear to be dynamically generating each of eight PNGs. Weird.

Sure, no problem, I can help you with that ;-)

It's an ASP.NET server control that I'm building. It enables the web
application developer to specify various settings--CornerRadius, ForeColor,
BackColor, etc.--and then the control generates the appropriate CSS and
images dynamically at runtime. At design time all the developer has to do is
drag and drop the control onto a form, set a few properties and presto! it
works--no fiddling with images and such. It's basically a productivity tool.

True, there's extra bandwidth and CPU overhead associated, but given today's
machine capacities those are relatively minimal and shouldn't be a concern
for all but the most demanding of applications. And once an image is
generated for the first time it goes into the server-side memory cache, so
CPU usage is kept down even further.

All this is well and good, I suppose--I'm pretty handy at server-side logic
and database stuff, but it's you guys I stand in awe of. The way you're able
to make a browser sit up and pay attention continually amazes me. And the
designs--my goodness what designs!

Thanks!

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