[Javascript] Positioning in IE

[Mike Dougherty]

i think the "Never use document.all inside a <script> tag" was a joke, in essence "never use 
document.all"   I don't think the implication was to use javascript in HTML tags or CSS.

In elementary school, they told us to never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear. 
(for safety's sake)  I thought they said never put anything OTHER than your elbow into your ear. 
 For years I thought it was a koan to make me ponder how you could get your elbow into your own 
ear (without requiring a freakish extra joint between the shoulder and elbow)

So maybe you missed the joke because the original post lacked the markup for "humorous tone"

Anyway, people seem to be really on edge lately.  Maybe that's why this is a good time of year for 
vacations...

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:07:17 +0200
  "Troy III Ajnej" <trojani2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Oh flavio, I never knew that, according to you the loop, can be stated inside an a HTML or even 
>inside CSS.
>REVERT the   Correction: Never use document.all inside a <script> tag
>it's silly. How on Earth are you going to build  a collection without calling it. Are we geting 
>samarter...
>And by the way I was addressing this one to a particular member of the forum only.
>And as I remember you have joined this forum very recenty, take it easy
>
>>From: Flavio Gomes <flavio at economisa.com.br>
>>Reply-To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>>To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>>Subject: Re: [Javascript] Positioning in IE
>>Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:07:19 -0300
>>
>>
>><flaming>
>>  Correction: Never use document.all inside a <script> tag.
>></flaming>
>>
>>^^
>>
>>--
>>Flavio Gomes
>>flavio at economisa.com.br
>>
>>Troy III Ajnej wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>The call: document.all
>>>is never to be used inside a loop, it will sllow the script from few to hundred and thousand 
>>>times, depending on how complex the page is (the number of doc objects contained) every time you 
>>>call  document.all it iterates all the objects. Than if you state get element by ID it scrolls 
>>>again through all the elements containing id, than, it has to compare if one of them yelds true 
>>>to give the permission to ecxecute, if after this you have given f.i. pixelLeft than it has to do 
>>>some math to decide where to put the element, but if you instruct posLeft, there is no math it 
>>>assumes zero at left and simply adds the new value. Try some of variants you know that will move 
>>>the object from left to right pixel by pixel in some old computer and see for your self.
>>>I use integer +px string with posLeft or Right/\ Top when increasingly possitioning the object.
>>>If I recall correctly, when stating pixelLeft, the browser looks up previous state than adds 
>>>positive or negative value to the existing one. And this means more processing. (but of course, 
>>>with the P4 2.66 or 3.2 GHz you will hardly notice the difference.)
>>
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