> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Beam
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:08 AM
>
> We have what seems like a fairly simple and common
> requirement - create
> a PDF template that has some tokens in it, replace those
> tokens on the
> fly with values from a DB and return a new file. This is for
> a shipping
> label - so the template looks something like this, only nicer:
Sam,
I've had good luck with the activePDF Toolkit from ActivePDF.
http://www.activepdf.com/products/serverproducts/toolkit/index.cfm
The basic solution is this:
1. You create your PDF using Acrobat and include fill-out form fields in
all the places you want the "tokens"
2. Save the PDF to the server somewhere.
3. Use the toolkit to "fill in" the fields and create a final PDF file.
4. Issue the completed PDF to the client.
At $399 this toolkit is a bit expensive, imo, but it's simple to work with.
I'm sure there are other solutions out there for less money. I'd suggest a
quick scan of sourceforge.net now that you know some of the terminology.
<><><><><><><><><><>
Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168
From tbrunn at pgmusic.com Wed Jan 5 16:16:30 2005
From: tbrunn at pgmusic.com (Travis)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:16:30 -0800
Subject: [thelist] Looking for a robust shopping cart w/ support for
e-delivery
Message-ID: <012b01c4f374$354cd480$6d0eb5d0@trav>
Hi Everyone,
Hoping someone might be able to offer some advice. We're currently looking for a shopping cart (preferably php, though this isn't essential). It needs to be robust and highly configureable. The cart will be used to purchase software, so some method of file delivery upon purchase is also essential.
Does anyone know of some good shopping carts out there that sound like they might match this description? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-Travis
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From ArthurM at seipas.com Thu Jan 6 10:45:35 2005
From: ArthurM at seipas.com (Arthur Maloney)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:45:35 +0000
Subject: [thelist] Run cmd
Message-ID: <1745045165.20050106164535@seipas.com>
Hello thelist,
I have a telephoney system, and on a local PC use can use the keyboard
START --> Run voispeed:0161999999 to dial a number
I want to do it with .Net (apsx page)
On the web server server I can put 'voispeed:0161999999' into the request
object.
How do I get the client Browser to run the cmd?
--
Best regards,
Arthur mailto:ArthurM at seipas.com
From rob.smith at THERMON.com Thu Jan 6 15:43:10 2005
From: rob.smith at THERMON.com (Rob Smith)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:43:10 -0600
Subject: [thelist] Response.Redirect (ASP)
Message-ID: <0CEC8258A6E4D611BE5400306E1CC92703E7CFF7@smtmb.tmc.local>
Hi,
I'm concatenating a network path through a series of commands in ASP and
then taking that path through response.redirect. When the url gets posted to
the Address Bar it reads:
https://my.domain.com/%5C%5CNetComp%5Cacct$%5CCash%5CFY05%5CJan%5CReceipts%2
00104.xls
( The %5C is the ASCII for \ )
The file exists on the server in the network path, but for some odd reason:
"The page cannot be found"
Ideas?
Rob.Smith
From alex at deltatraffic.co.uk Thu Jan 6 15:57:10 2005
From: alex at deltatraffic.co.uk (Alex Beston)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:57:10 +0000
Subject: [thelist] ooooh look at that
In-Reply-To: <1745045165.20050106164535@seipas.com>
References: <1745045165.20050106164535@seipas.com>
Message-ID: <41DDB436.4090506@deltatraffic.co.uk>
>
doesnt parse
I cant see any reason why it it shouldnt
comments?
--
Alex Beston
Business Director
deltaTraffic
Tel: 01273 691234
Room 32, Level 6,
New England House,
Brighton, England
www.deltatraffic.co.uk
--
From dexilalolai at yahoo.com Thu Jan 6 16:00:31 2005
From: dexilalolai at yahoo.com (Scott Dexter)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:00:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [thelist] Response.Redirect (ASP)
In-Reply-To: <0CEC8258A6E4D611BE5400306E1CC92703E7CFF7@smtmb.tmc.local>
Message-ID: <20050106220031.74800.qmail@web80403.mail.yahoo.com>
--- Rob Smith wrote:
> the Address Bar it reads:
>
https://my.domain.com/%5C%5CNetComp%5Cacct$%5CCash%5CFY05%5CJan%5CReceipts%2
> 00104.xls
>
> ( The %5C is the ASCII for \ )
>
So you have a URL that looks like:
https://my.domain.com/\\NetComp\acct\Cash...
which isn't valid. UNC names don't play nicely inside URLs; you're
going to have to emit an HTTP path to the document. Map a virtual
directory or something of the sort....
Good luck--
Scott
From joshua at waetech.com Thu Jan 6 16:06:06 2005
From: joshua at waetech.com (Joshua Olson)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:06:06 -0500
Subject: [thelist] ooooh look at that
In-Reply-To: <41DDB436.4090506@deltatraffic.co.uk>
Message-ID:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Beston
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:57 PM
>
> style="background-repeat:no-repeat" --> >
>
> doesnt parse
>
> I cant see any reason why it it shouldnt
>
> comments?
Alex,
Consider the reason that this doesn't parse:
>Bold and Italicstrong>
should be considered a tag where the text before the closing tag is
simply ignored. Thus, you've incorrected nested tags.
FYI, if you are using CF, change to and CF will consider
the code commented during parsing and the text between will not be sent to
the client.
<><><><><><><><><><>
Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168
From peter at easylistbox.com Thu Jan 6 16:14:17 2005
From: peter at easylistbox.com (Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com))
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:14:17 -0700
Subject: [thelist] Response.Redirect (ASP)
Message-ID:
Hi Rob,
???It doesn't seem that odd to me.? If you replace "/" with "%5C" in a URL, I would think the browser would be a bit confused.
Cheers,
Peter
From: Rob Smith rob.smith at THERMON.com
Hi,
I'm concatenating a network path through a series of commands in ASP and
then taking that path through response.redirect. When the url gets posted to
the Address Bar it reads:
https://my.domain.com/%5C%5CNetComp%5Cacct$%5CCash%5CFY05%5CJan%5CReceipts%2
00104.xls
( The %5C is the ASCII for \ )
The file exists on the server in the network path, but for some odd reason:
"The page cannot be found"
Ideas?
Rob.Smith
--
From evolt at roselli.org Thu Jan 6 13:09:26 2005
From: evolt at roselli.org (aardvark)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:09:26 -0500
Subject: [thelist] Serializing SQL calls to AS/400 via ODBC
In-Reply-To: <19416590.1104792538220.JavaMail.root@kermit.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
References: <19416590.1104792538220.JavaMail.root@kermit.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <41DD8CE6.3030506@roselli.org>
for those who may have been playing along at home (which i think was
just anthony), i never found a solution... i think the driver is just
plain broked...
instead, i'm splitting my serialized query on the semicolon and passing
it off as x number of queries...
there are obviously potential problema since they aren't truly
serialized, but i'm now leaning on the db itself and some external
functions to help alleviate those...
so if you're reading this in the future while surfing google trying to
solve this very same problem, you're SOL on this thread...
aardvark wrote:
> i have an intranet project that uses an AS/400 database as the
> data store for the system... i have to select, update, and insert
> data...
>
> i am using the iSeries Client Access ODBC Driver to access this
> AS/400 system... however, when i try to serialize, or string
> together, more than one SQL statement it throws an error...
> example error:
>
> Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
> [IBM][iSeries Access ODBC Driver][DB2 UDB]SQL0104 - Token ;
> was not valid. Valid tokens: .
From evolt at roselli.org Thu Jan 6 19:43:23 2005
From: evolt at roselli.org (aardvark)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:43:23 -0500
Subject: [thelist] Serializing SQL calls to AS/400 via ODBC
In-Reply-To: <19416590.1104792538220.JavaMail.root@kermit.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
References: <19416590.1104792538220.JavaMail.root@kermit.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <41DDE93B.9040106@roselli.org>
for those who may have been playing along at home (which i think was
just anthony), i never found a solution... i think the driver is just
plain broked...
instead, i'm splitting my serialized query on the semicolon and passing
it off as x number of queries...
there are obviously potential problema since they aren't truly
serialized, but i'm now leaning on the db itself and some external
functions to help alleviate those...
so if you're reading this in the future while surfing google trying to
solve this very same problem, you're SOL on this thread...
aardvark wrote:
> i have an intranet project that uses an AS/400 database as the
> data store for the system... i have to select, update, and insert
> data...
>
> i am using the iSeries Client Access ODBC Driver to access this
> AS/400 system... however, when i try to serialize, or string
> together, more than one SQL statement it throws an error...
> example error:
>
> Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
> [IBM][iSeries Access ODBC Driver][DB2 UDB]SQL0104 - Token ;
> was not valid. Valid tokens: .
From Ken at adOpenStatic.com Thu Jan 6 19:52:17 2005
From: Ken at adOpenStatic.com (Ken Schaefer)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:52:17 +1100
Subject: [thelist] Response.Redirect (ASP)
Message-ID: <160489103479AB4892187638EE7D1E690EF036@kjserver1.kjhome.local>
: -----Original Message-----
: From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On
: Behalf Of Rob Smith
: Subject: [thelist] Response.Redirect (ASP)
:
: I'm concatenating a network path through a series of commands in ASP and
: then taking that path through response.redirect. When the url gets posted
to
: the Address Bar it reads:
: https://my.domain.com/%5C%5CNetComp%5Cacct$%5CCash%5CFY05%5CJan
: %5CReceipts%2
: 00104.xls
:
: ( The %5C is the ASCII for \ )
:
: The file exists on the server in the network path, but for some odd reason:
:
: "The page cannot be found"
I don't think it's "odd". Why do you think it's odd? I would suggest that the
file certainly does *not* exist at the location you're pointing to.
a) You're trying to connect using HTTPS:// (so port 443) to a host called
my.domain.com
b) Then you seem to be asking for *another* host called \\NetComp and
connecting to an SMB (which is port 445, or ports 137-139) share called acct$
Right, so which is it? Do you want to use HTTPS? Or SMB? Do you want to
connect to my.domain.com? Or do you want to connect to \\NetComp?
Cheers
Ken
From jonathan at boehm-ritter.com Thu Jan 6 13:49:27 2005
From: jonathan at boehm-ritter.com (Jonathan Dillon)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:49:27 -0800
Subject: [thelist] Looking for a php "usps class" to generate shipping labels
In-Reply-To: <1745045165.20050106164535@seipas.com>
Message-ID: <20050106195433.B660D5188CF@mx1.nexiderm.com>
I've looked everywhere without luck.
I'm looking for a php class that I can use to generate USPS shipping labels.
I'm not just looking for price calculations, but actual labels. Does anyone
know of such a class? Even one in Java would be ok, as I can access the
object from php.
Help?
Jonathan
From sbeam at onsetcorps.net Thu Jan 6 17:40:17 2005
From: sbeam at onsetcorps.net (sbeam)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:40:17 -0500
Subject: [thelist] create PDF "template" and insert vars
Message-ID: <200501061840.18014.sbeam@onsetcorps.net>
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:05 am, you wrote:
> I've had good luck with the activePDF Toolkit from ActivePDF.
>
> http://www.activepdf.com/products/serverproducts/toolkit/index.cfm
>
> The basic solution is this:
>
> 1. ?You create your PDF using Acrobat and include fill-out form fields
in
> all the places you want the "tokens"
> 2. ?Save the PDF to the server somewhere.
> 3. ?Use the toolkit to "fill in" the fields and create a final PDF
file.
> 4. ?Issue the completed PDF to the client.
>
> At $399 this toolkit is a bit expensive, imo, but it's simple to work
with.
> I'm sure there are other solutions out there for less money. ?I'd
suggest a
> quick scan of sourceforge.net now that you know some of the
terminology.
Thanks for the links. I keep thinking of PDFs as an being more hackable
then they are it seems. Looks like we will be going with some kind of
commercial solution where you can insert data via FDF into the PDF form
fields.
cheers.
--
# S Beam - Web App Dev Servs
# http://www.onsetcorps.net/
From markgroen at gmail.com Fri Jan 7 00:21:31 2005
From: markgroen at gmail.com (Mark Groen)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:21:31 -0800
Subject: [thelist] Looking for a php "usps class" to generate shipping
labels
In-Reply-To: <20050106195433.B660D5188CF@mx1.nexiderm.com>
References: <1745045165.20050106164535@seipas.com>
<20050106195433.B660D5188CF@mx1.nexiderm.com>
Message-ID: <23dbfbd1050106222174e90f5@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:49:27 -0800, Jonathan Dillon
wrote:
> I've looked everywhere without luck.
>
> I'm looking for a php class that I can use to generate USPS shipping labels.
> I'm not just looking for price calculations, but actual labels. Does anyone
> know of such a class? Even one in Java would be ok, as I can access the
> object from php.
afaik, they have their own web tools/API, you need to register to look around:
http://www.usps.com/webtools/shipping.htm
cheers,
Mark
MG Web Services
www.mgwebservices.ca
Your Canadian West Coast web site development and hosting solution.
From evolt at muinar.com Fri Jan 7 04:36:25 2005
From: evolt at muinar.com (Mike)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:36:25 +0100
Subject: [thelist] Linebreaks in PHP/MySQL newsletter
Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20050107112442.02154680@mail.muinar.com>
Hi all
When I format newsletters using this code...
$nlText = wordwrap( $text,72 );
... some users get all the text on one line.
If I replace 'bad' linebreaks like this:
$text = ereg_replace( "\r\n","\n",$text );
$text = ereg_replace( "\r","\n",$text );
$nlText = wordwrap( $text,72 );
... some users get the newsletter with double linebreaks.
Of course, when I test it (Win2000, Win98, Eudora, Outlook, TheBat),
everything looks good, in both cases.
Your advice/experience?
Thanks!
Mike
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From ruimbmadeira at yahoo.com.br Fri Jan 7 06:19:32 2005
From: ruimbmadeira at yahoo.com.br (Rui Madeira)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:19:32 -0300 (ART)
Subject: [thelist] Help about DB search
Message-ID: <20050107121932.51877.qmail@web20703.mail.yahoo.com>
I need a easy script that can help me in a search with a Access data base.
Thank?s in advanced
Rui Madeira
---------------------------------
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From ianfusa at gmail.com Fri Jan 7 06:34:35 2005
From: ianfusa at gmail.com (Ian Feavearyear)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:34:35 +0000
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
Message-ID:
Does anyone worry about sticking to the web-safe pallette these days?
Just curious!
Ian
From john at johnallsopp.co.uk Fri Jan 7 06:50:48 2005
From: john at johnallsopp.co.uk (john at johnallsopp.co.uk)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:50:48 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <50207.82.195.101.196.1105102248.squirrel@82.195.101.196>
> Does anyone worry about sticking to the web-safe pallette these days?
> Just curious!
I think it was always more important for corporate types who wanted
their corporate colours to turn out reasonable.
I don't worry about it any more.
J
From lists at onlinetools.org Fri Jan 7 06:54:51 2005
From: lists at onlinetools.org (Chris Heilmann)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:54:51 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <55302.80.85.75.20.1105102491.squirrel@webmail01.nwu.net>
> Does anyone worry about sticking to the web-safe pallette these days?
> Just curious!
I still. Mainly because I know that they'll be fine on most machines and
are nice to abbreviate and type.
color:#369;
instead of color:#34679a;
Also, you can guess a lot of them, as they can only have 00, 33, 66, 99,
cc or ff as any of the triplets.
--
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http://icant.co.uk/ | http://www.onlinetools.org/
From keith at digital-crew.com Fri Jan 7 07:19:08 2005
From: keith at digital-crew.com (Keith Gaughan)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:19:08 +0000
Subject: [thelist] Help about DB search
In-Reply-To: <20050107121932.51877.qmail@web20703.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20050107121932.51877.qmail@web20703.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <41DE8C4C.6070508@digital-crew.com>
Rui Madeira wrote:
> I need a easy script that can help me in a search with a Access data base.
You'll need to be a little more detailed. What are you searching for in
the db, and what's the database schema?
K.
--
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Digital Crew Ltd., Pembroke House, Pembroke Street, Cork, Ireland
http://digital-crew.com/
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From keith at digital-crew.com Fri Jan 7 07:18:09 2005
From: keith at digital-crew.com (Keith Gaughan)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:18:09 +0000
Subject: [thelist] Linebreaks in PHP/MySQL newsletter
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20050107112442.02154680@mail.muinar.com>
References: <5.0.0.25.2.20050107112442.02154680@mail.muinar.com>
Message-ID: <41DE8C11.6070803@digital-crew.com>
Mike wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When I format newsletters using this code...
>
> $nlText = wordwrap( $text,72 );
>
> ... some users get all the text on one line.
>
> If I replace 'bad' linebreaks like this:
>
> $text = ereg_replace( "\r\n","\n",$text );
> $text = ereg_replace( "\r","\n",$text );
> $nlText = wordwrap( $text,72 );
>
> ... some users get the newsletter with double linebreaks.
>
> Of course, when I test it (Win2000, Win98, Eudora, Outlook, TheBat),
> everything looks good, in both cases.
>
> Your advice/experience?
If the text is coming from a form, you should *always* be getting CRLFs
as your linebreaks. I'm not sure if that's the case, but if it is,
something odd's going on.
What might be happening is that the linebreaks might mixed. An example
of something that might result in a double linefeed would be a sequence
like "\r\n\n", where the second \n is being ignored (IE's textarea will
do this as it's the same control as makes up the body of notepad).
When converted, this leaves you with \n\n.
I'd check your incoming data to see if this is what's happening.
K.
--
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Digital Crew Ltd., Pembroke House, Pembroke Street, Cork, Ireland
http://digital-crew.com/
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From roger.newbrook at scientiasolutions.com Fri Jan 7 07:18:55 2005
From: roger.newbrook at scientiasolutions.com (Roger Newbrook)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:18:55 -0000
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
Message-ID:
Ian asked "Does anyone worry about sticking to the web-safe pallette these
days?"
for me this is a yes and no answer. No, all my colour pallettes don't
conform to the web-safe pallette. But I also find it useful to know how a
site will render at a lower colour quality, particularly with subtle colours
(ie not much saturation).
roger
From lightly at sc.rr.com Fri Jan 7 07:31:27 2005
From: lightly at sc.rr.com (Linda R.)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:31:27 -0500
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <41DE8F2F.6030205@sc.rr.com>
Ian Feavearyear wrote:
> Does anyone worry about sticking to the web-safe pallette these days?
> Just curious!
Naw. Use the colors you like but test a lot.
By the way, Web safe doesn't mean that anyone using any browser on any
Operating System will see those colors in the same way. It means they
won't see them as dithered.
The Web safe palette was developed for 256 color video display. 8-bit
and 16-bit color systems share only 8 colors of the Web 216 palette.
That means the Web 216 color palette is pretty much guaranteed to dither
or shift on a 16-bit color display.
16 bit, or "High color" was originally developed for artists who work in
CMYK color space. 16 bits can be evenly divided into 4 bits per
channel?4 Cyan, 4 Magenta, 4 Yellow, and 4 Key (blacK). RGB is a three
value color space. 16 bits can?t be evenly divided by 3, so you end up
with an extra color bit. That?s where things go wonky.
Different display card manufacturers have different ways of dealing with
that 16th bit. One may assign the orphaned bit to the blue channel,
making a color look cooler. Another manufacturer may assign bit #16 to
the red channel, making the same color look warmer. A third display card
manufacturer might choose to ignore bit 16 altogether. This color shift
between systems is why the background color of a GIF matches the
background color of an HTML page on my system but doesn?t match it on
yours. It's worth noting that LCD screens are less color faithful than
CRT monitors, especially when viewing the screen a bit off the
perpendicular. 16-bit color display is a complete madhouse!
--
Cheers,
Linda Rathgeber
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From evolt at muinar.com Fri Jan 7 07:38:30 2005
From: evolt at muinar.com (Mike)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:38:30 +0100
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20050107143709.02194008@mail.muinar.com>
At 12:34 07.01.2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Does anyone worry about sticking to the web-safe pallette these days?
>Just curious!
For me it doesn't make sense anymore. The 'web safe' colors weren't that
safe anyway.
Mike
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From ruimbmadeira at yahoo.com.br Fri Jan 7 08:18:42 2005
From: ruimbmadeira at yahoo.com.br (Rui Madeira)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:18:42 -0300 (ART)
Subject: [thelist] Help about DB search
In-Reply-To: <41DE8C4C.6070508@digital-crew.com>
Message-ID: <20050107141842.52342.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com>
> I need a easy script that can help me in a search with a Access data base, that will be presented in a web site.
The data base as only one table, with 6 fields of informations: cities, URL (it can be more than one), 4 digit code, specific information in URL, classes of information (agruped in 4 classes), type of information (agruped in three types).
The search in the DB will be made only by three fields: cities, class and type of information. All of them will need to have a "combo box" for the user choose what he/she wants to search. The result of the search would be a table with the name of the city specific information in URL and the URL to make the link.
Thank you very much for the help in advanced
Rui Madeira
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From diane at dianesoini.com Fri Jan 7 08:48:42 2005
From: diane at dianesoini.com (Diane Soini)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:48:42 -0800
Subject: [thelist] IE6 and XML with XSLT printing troubles
Message-ID: <3966798A-60BB-11D9-AD47-00039358CB42@dianesoini.com>
I've taken an RDF XML file and applied a simple XSL style sheet to
layout the data in a basic HTML table, minus the unnecessary columns.
Nothing fancy, nothing you wouldn't find in a basic tutorial. It
renders faithfully in Windows IE6.
The resulting table fits in about 3 pages with landscape orientation,
so it's not a whole lot. However, when I go to actually print the
document (from IE6), the size of the file sent to the printer
approaches infinity. I watch in print preview as the page number
approaches 1000. I nearly killed an entire forest of trees before I
realized what was happening.
I've tried also opening the XML file with Excel. It does the same
thing, filling in rows for all eternity, unless I opt out of applying
the style sheet. (I have Office 2003 on XP Pro, by the way.)
I also cannot copy and paste the data from IE6 into another document.
All it copies is the URL to the XML file. And, I cannot open another
different XML file at the same time in a new window. When I do, the
first browser window also opens the new file.
What the heck?? Is this a common problem? Is there a fix? It would be
really handy if my supervisor could just open up the file that resides
on the server in IE or Excel in order to see all the data rather than
me remembering to update a separate file with the data. I have no
server technology available, so I thought this might suffice. Help!
Diane
From and-evolt at doxdesk.com Fri Jan 7 09:03:28 2005
From: and-evolt at doxdesk.com (Andrew Clover)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:03:28 +0100
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To: <41DE8F2F.6030205@sc.rr.com>
References:
<41DE8F2F.6030205@sc.rr.com>
Message-ID: <41DEA4C0.3090707@doxdesk.com>
Linda R. wrote:
> By the way, Web safe doesn't mean that anyone using any browser on any
> Operating System will see those colors in the same way. It means they
> won't see them as dithered.
Not even that much, if you count operating systems other than Windows
and Mac. Other OSs made different choices on what palette to use in
256-colours.
Plus Netscape <=4 on Unix would happily dither and choose the wrong
colour (at random) for even colours it had palette entries for.
(Technical explanation: this is because it was crap.)
Web-safe was always overrated. Good riddance to it.
> That means the Web 216 color palette is pretty much guaranteed to dither
> or shift on a 16-bit color display.
Actually *all* colours are guaranteed to dither/shift on a 15-bit colour
display. Apart from the primary/secondary colours where each RGB
component is 0x00 or 0xFF, no colour that can be specified with 5 bits
per channel can also be specified *exactly* with 8 bits per channel.
On a 16-bit display with 5 bits per channel for red and blue and 6 for
the green you do get another couple of colours to play with, but not
much and they're mostly ugly.
--
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mailto:and at doxdesk.com
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From keith at digital-crew.com Fri Jan 7 09:27:04 2005
From: keith at digital-crew.com (Keith Gaughan)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:27:04 +0000
Subject: [thelist] Re: Help about DB search
In-Reply-To: <20050107141842.52342.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20050107141842.52342.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <41DEAA48.90500@digital-crew.com>
Rui Madeira wrote:
>>I need a easy script that can help me in a search with a Access data
>>base, that will be presented in a web site.
>
> The data base as only one table, with 6 fields of informations:
> cities, URL (it can be more than one), 4 digit code, specific
> information in URL, classes of information (agruped in 4 classes),
> type of information (agruped in three types).
Any chance of some sample data? Your description of what the URL field
contains is a little vague: are the URLs stored together in the one
field in the one row or is the data identifying the the URLs
(cities--why plural?--type, and class)
> The search in the DB will be made only by three fields: cities, class
> and type of information. All of them will need to have a "combo box"
> for the user choose what he/she wants to search. The result of the
> search would be a table with the name of the city specific information
> in URL and the URL to make the link.
I think a link to a copy of the database, either empty or with some
sample data, would be useful. Also, I think your schema may be in need
of some normalisation. In particular, the cities should problably be
moved to their own table so that you have one canonical list of them.
They can then be referenced in your main table.
K.
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From rob.smith at THERMON.com Fri Jan 7 09:28:32 2005
From: rob.smith at THERMON.com (Rob Smith)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:28:32 -0600
Subject: [thelist] Response.Redirect (ASP)
Message-ID: <0CEC8258A6E4D611BE5400306E1CC92703E7CFFF@smtmb.tmc.local>
Ken,
I'm connecting from an https:// to an excel file located on another server
via the \\Network protocol. Now, obviously it works when the files are
located on the web server itself. It's worked before. Maybe I just need to
walk my happy rear over the guys desk and recopy what I think the path is.
Rob
From dexilalolai at yahoo.com Fri Jan 7 09:42:20 2005
From: dexilalolai at yahoo.com (Scott Dexter)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:42:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [thelist] Response.Redirect (ASP)
In-Reply-To: <0CEC8258A6E4D611BE5400306E1CC92703E7CFFF@smtmb.tmc.local>
Message-ID: <20050107154220.30707.qmail@web80403.mail.yahoo.com>
> I'm connecting from an https:// to an excel file located on another
> server
> via the \\Network protocol.
There's the rub. This method is not as straight forward as you're
hoping with just doing it via URL. The webserver (https) needs to
have access to the "another" server and map the \\Network share to a
virtual directory so it is available to web clients. There are also
network permissions to consider, ensuring the webserver has proper
rights to \\AnotherServer.
Sorry, there are a couple hoops to jump through here; the good news
is it's a very well-worn path, lots of folks have done this, and we
can help you through it :)
Scott
From joshua at waetech.com Fri Jan 7 09:51:52 2005
From: joshua at waetech.com (Joshua Olson)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:51:52 -0500
Subject: [thelist] Response.Redirect (ASP)
In-Reply-To: <0CEC8258A6E4D611BE5400306E1CC92703E7CFFF@smtmb.tmc.local>
Message-ID:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Smith
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:29 AM
>
> Ken,
>
> I'm connecting from an https:// to an excel file located on
> another server
> via the \\Network protocol. Now, obviously it works when the files are
> located on the web server itself. It's worked before. Maybe I
> just need to
> walk my happy rear over the guys desk and recopy what I think
> the path is.
Rob,
It is possible to access network resources using the UNC (such as
\\server\folder\etc) through Internet Explorer. However, that necessitates
that you can somehow get the browser to have in its address bar the UNC for
the file. When you are using the HTTP protocol (or HTTPS) through IE you
are, effectively, locked into the web-centric protocols (http, https, ftp,
mail, etc). That means going from http://www.domain.com to \\server\folder\
is NOT going to work without the user typing in the address themselves.
Imagine, if you would, the security risk that would open up if you could
click on a link on a bad webpage which opens the following within a hidden
frame: \\localhost\c$\somefile !! I don't think even MS is that careless.
<><><><><><><><><><>
Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168
From steve at plankdesign.com Fri Jan 7 09:54:25 2005
From: steve at plankdesign.com (Steve Bissonnette)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:54:25 -0500
Subject: [thelist] 1and1.com web host ?
Message-ID:
Hi everyone,
Has anyone had any experience with 1and1 web hosting ?
http://www.1and1.com/
One of our clients wants to move to them and I?d like to know of anyone
has any caveats / warnings / experiences, etc.
Thanks,
Steve
--
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steve at plankdesign.com
PLANK. A multi-faceted-media company.
http://www.plankdesign.com
v. 514.875.0003 f. 514.875.7611
From evolt_org at striderweb.com Fri Jan 7 10:12:32 2005
From: evolt_org at striderweb.com (Stephen Rider)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:12:32 -0600
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To: <41DE8F2F.6030205@sc.rr.com>
References:
<41DE8F2F.6030205@sc.rr.com>
Message-ID:
On Jan 7, 2005, at 7:31 AM, Linda R. wrote:
> 16 bit, or "High color" was originally developed for artists who work
> in CMYK color space. 16 bits can be evenly divided into 4 bits per
> channel?4 Cyan, 4 Magenta, 4 Yellow, and 4 Key (blacK). RGB is a three
> value color space. 16 bits can?t be evenly divided by 3, so you end up
> with an extra color bit. That?s where things go wonky.
> ...
> Different display card manufacturers have different ways of dealing
> with that 16th bit.... This color shift between systems is why the
> background color of a GIF matches the background color of an HTML page
> on my system but doesn?t match it on yours.
THANK YOU! God, that's been driving me crazy -- I notice it again
every once in a while and could never figure out if the coder screwed
up, of if the computer was off kilter... or what. It makes no sense to
me that something as basic as color can't be standardized across
computers.
Of course...
If you want a gif to precisely match the background color of a web
page, you can use a solid-color gif as the background-image for the
Body (in addition to specifying it in HTML). The color of a gif will
match another same-color gif more reliably than it will a
HTML-specified RGB color.
Cool.
From mark at eurogamer.net Fri Jan 7 10:26:12 2005
From: mark at eurogamer.net (Mark Kennedy)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:26:12 +0000
Subject: [thelist] IE6 and XML with XSLT printing troubles
In-Reply-To: <3966798A-60BB-11D9-AD47-00039358CB42@dianesoini.com>
References: <3966798A-60BB-11D9-AD47-00039358CB42@dianesoini.com>
Message-ID: <41DEB824.6070002@eurogamer.net>
Hi Diane,
Can I/we see the stylesheet in question? I don't know much about the
MSXML XSLT processor, but I do know XSLT and maybe there's an infinite
recursion you haven't spotted, that IE manages to detect and halt in
some cases but not when printing.
Sorry if this sounds like a complete stab in the dark, but your problem
does sound odd.
Mark
Diane Soini wrote:
> I've taken an RDF XML file and applied a simple XSL style sheet to
> layout the data in a basic HTML table, minus the unnecessary columns.
> Nothing fancy, nothing you wouldn't find in a basic tutorial. It renders
> faithfully in Windows IE6.
>
> The resulting table fits in about 3 pages with landscape orientation, so
> it's not a whole lot. However, when I go to actually print the document
> (from IE6), the size of the file sent to the printer approaches
> infinity. I watch in print preview as the page number approaches 1000. I
> nearly killed an entire forest of trees before I realized what was
> happening.
>
> I've tried also opening the XML file with Excel. It does the same thing,
> filling in rows for all eternity, unless I opt out of applying the style
> sheet. (I have Office 2003 on XP Pro, by the way.)
>
> I also cannot copy and paste the data from IE6 into another document.
> All it copies is the URL to the XML file. And, I cannot open another
> different XML file at the same time in a new window. When I do, the
> first browser window also opens the new file.
>
> What the heck?? Is this a common problem? Is there a fix? It would be
> really handy if my supervisor could just open up the file that resides
> on the server in IE or Excel in order to see all the data rather than me
> remembering to update a separate file with the data. I have no server
> technology available, so I thought this might suffice. Help!
>
> Diane
>
From maisha at e-vent.org Fri Jan 7 10:32:04 2005
From: maisha at e-vent.org (Maisha Walker)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:32:04 -0500
Subject: [thelist] Little piece of Javascript code
Message-ID: <0I9Y00B46GLLB1@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>
Hello all!
My javascript programmer is out of town and (thanks to David Sieband for the
insight!) I realize that I'm in need of someone to write a little Javascript
code for a project.
I have a calendar which shows the details of each event in a pop-up window.
When people click on a link (either from the site or from an email) for a
particular event, I'd like both the calendar and the detail page for that
event to open up so that the user doesn't have to click twice.
But there will also be times when someone will just click on the calendar
link so no event detail window will open.
I need some javascript code for the calendar page that will check for the
existence of event detail information in the URL (something like
calendar.htm#eventname), and then open up the appropriate event window.
Can anyone out there write that or know where I can find something similar?
I don't really have time to learn all about javascript (I have to focus on
other stuff so I'd rather leave it to the pros :o) but I'm generally a quick
study so and I know some of the basics so if its really easy I can do it
from an example of something similar!
Many thanks!
Maisha
From getafixx at getafixx.com Fri Jan 7 10:37:54 2005
From: getafixx at getafixx.com (Justin King)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:37:54 -0000
Subject: [thelist] 1and1.com web host ?
References:
Message-ID: <005f01c4f4d7$3ea34550$3982150a@ukstudio.ceo.ad.ea.com>
Steve,
http://www.1and1.com/
Just don't do it...
They are the biggest bunch of Muppets I have ever had the misfortune to deal
with.
I have had some clients who have used them to register domains and have had
to transfer the domain away from them just so they could set different DNS
servers. (it seams that you can do that now)
Just plain hard work and difficult.
I am sure their hosting plans are good value and their uptime is good. I
hope other people have had a better experience than me.
Justin
http://getafixxhosting.com
http://getafixx.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Bissonnette"
To:
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:54 PM
Subject: [thelist] 1and1.com web host ?
Hi everyone,
Has anyone had any experience with 1and1 web hosting ?
http://www.1and1.com/
One of our clients wants to move to them and I?d like to know of anyone
has any caveats / warnings / experiences, etc.
Thanks,
Steve
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From soundres9 at yahoo.com Fri Jan 7 10:43:00 2005
From: soundres9 at yahoo.com (klute)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:43:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [thelist] 1and1.com web host ?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID: <20050107164300.67801.qmail@web50109.mail.yahoo.com>
this may help
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=360739&highlight=1and1.com
best
james
--- Steve Bissonnette wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with 1and1 web hosting
> ?
>
> http://www.1and1.com/
>
> One of our clients wants to move to them and I?d
> like to know of anyone
> has any caveats / warnings / experiences, etc.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
> --
> steve bissonnette
> steve at plankdesign.com
>
> PLANK. A multi-faceted-media company.
> http://www.plankdesign.com
> v. 514.875.0003 f. 514.875.7611
>
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From lightly at sc.rr.com Fri Jan 7 10:44:42 2005
From: lightly at sc.rr.com (Linda R.)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:44:42 -0500
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To:
References:
<41DE8F2F.6030205@sc.rr.com>
Message-ID: <41DEBC7A.7080804@sc.rr.com>
Stephen Rider wrote:
> Of course...
>
> If you want a gif to precisely match the background color of a web page,
> you can use a solid-color gif as the background-image for the Body (in
> addition to specifying it in HTML). The color of a gif will match
> another same-color gif more reliably than it will a HTML-specified RGB
> color.
>
Or you eliminate the problem altogether by making the background of your
GIF transparent.
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From alan.lloyd at gmail.com Fri Jan 7 10:50:27 2005
From: alan.lloyd at gmail.com (Alan Lloyd)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:50:27 +0000
Subject: [thelist] 1and1.com web host ?
In-Reply-To: <005f01c4f4d7$3ea34550$3982150a@ukstudio.ceo.ad.ea.com>
References:
<005f01c4f4d7$3ea34550$3982150a@ukstudio.ceo.ad.ea.com>
Message-ID: <5722c75505010708503694f285@mail.gmail.com>
Not sure about the US based version but i think the general consensus
is that they are fine if you never need their tech support.
I feel like i have been 10 rounds with their tech support today but
would still recommend them for price if nothing else.
Alan
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:37:54 -0000, Justin King wrote:
> Steve,
>
> http://www.1and1.com/
>
> Just don't do it...
>
> They are the biggest bunch of Muppets I have ever had the misfortune to deal
> with.
>
> I have had some clients who have used them to register domains and have had
> to transfer the domain away from them just so they could set different DNS
> servers. (it seams that you can do that now)
>
> Just plain hard work and difficult.
>
> I am sure their hosting plans are good value and their uptime is good. I
> hope other people have had a better experience than me.
>
> Justin
> http://getafixxhosting.com
> http://getafixx.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Bissonnette"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:54 PM
> Subject: [thelist] 1and1.com web host ?
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with 1and1 web hosting ?
>
> http://www.1and1.com/
>
> One of our clients wants to move to them and I?d like to know of anyone
> has any caveats / warnings / experiences, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
> --
> steve bissonnette
> steve at plankdesign.com
>
> PLANK. A multi-faceted-media company.
> http://www.plankdesign.com
> v. 514.875.0003 f. 514.875.7611
>
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From juha at ilmiantajat.fi Fri Jan 7 02:20:14 2005
From: juha at ilmiantajat.fi (Juha Suni)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:20:14 +0200
Subject: [thelist] [OT] Seeking Windows 2K and Office 2K
References: <20050103182156.E79DD47E23@mx2.song.fi>
Message-ID: <008001c4f491$b6c251c0$3300a8c0@tavutykki>
Joshua Olson wrote:
>
> Based on the handful of respondents, the majority of the people on
> this list appear to be from the US. Of course, the results are
> preliminary.
>
> Chime in here:
>
> http://concepts.waetech.com/thelist_survey/
Just a heads up. This no longer seems to be the case. Also you should've
considered the fact that you put up the survey at a time when most europeans
were no longer working, but were already at home (or well, the local pub,
cough).
Interesting information nonetheless.
--
Suni
From ruimbmadeira at yahoo.com.br Fri Jan 7 10:55:30 2005
From: ruimbmadeira at yahoo.com.br (Rui Madeira)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:55:30 -0300 (ART)
Subject: [thelist] Help about DB search
In-Reply-To: <41DEAA48.90500@digital-crew.com>
Message-ID: <20050107165530.57008.qmail@web20706.mail.yahoo.com>
Here it goes a sample of the DB
I?m sorry but the info is in Portuguese (I?m from Portugal, Lisbon) but I?ve turn the fields name to English
Keith Gaughan wrote:
Rui Madeira wrote:
>>I need a easy script that can help me in a search with a Access data
>>base, that will be presented in a web site.
>
> The data base as only one table, with 6 fields of informations:
> cities, URL (it can be more than one), 4 digit code, specific
> information in URL, classes of information (agruped in 4 classes),
> type of information (agruped in three types).
Any chance of some sample data? Your description of what the URL field
contains is a little vague: are the URLs stored together in the one
field in the one row or is the data identifying the the URLs
(cities--why plural?--type, and class)
> The search in the DB will be made only by three fields: cities, class
> and type of information. All of them will need to have a "combo box"
> for the user choose what he/she wants to search. The result of the
> search would be a table with the name of the city specific information
> in URL and the URL to make the link.
I think a link to a copy of the database, either empty or with some
sample data, would be useful. Also, I think your schema may be in need
of some normalisation. In particular, the cities should problably be
moved to their own table so that you have one canonical list of them.
They can then be referenced in your main table.
K.
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From jonathan at boehm-ritter.com Fri Jan 7 12:25:42 2005
From: jonathan at boehm-ritter.com (Jonathan Dillon)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:25:42 -0800
Subject: [thelist] Looking for a php "usps class" to generate
shippinglabels
In-Reply-To: <23dbfbd1050106222174e90f5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20050107183103.16CB1518776@mx1.nexiderm.com>
> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:49:27 -0800, Jonathan Dillon
wrote:
> > I've looked everywhere without luck.
> >
> > I'm looking for a php class that I can use to generate USPS shipping
labels.
> > I'm not just looking for price calculations, but actual labels. Does
> > anyone know of such a class? Even one in Java would be ok, as I can
> > access the object from php.
>
> afaik, they have their own web tools/API, you need to register to look
around:
>
> http://www.usps.com/webtools/shipping.htm
Right, I've looked through this. It basically has a couple of third party
services you can print labels through like Stamps.com, Pitney, Endicia, etc.
But I have no problem generating shipping labels -- I guess I was unclear.
The problem I'm having is generating the tracking labels -- we have bulk
postage paid.
Anyone have experience with this? Hey, who knows, maybe I'm barking up the
wrong tree. But none of the vendors I yakked with could tell me how to do
this without going to a third party payment solution.
Jonathan
From mwarden at gmail.com Fri Jan 7 12:37:50 2005
From: mwarden at gmail.com (Matt Warden)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:37:50 -0500
Subject: [thelist] Little piece of Javascript code
In-Reply-To: <0I9Y00B46GLLB1@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>
References: <0I9Y00B46GLLB1@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>
Message-ID:
Maisha,
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:32:04 -0500, Maisha Walker wrote:
> I have a calendar which shows the details of each event in a pop-up window.
> When people click on a link (either from the site or from an email) for a
> particular event, I'd like both the calendar and the detail page for that
> event to open up so that the user doesn't have to click twice.
>
> But there will also be times when someone will just click on the calendar
> link so no event detail window will open.
You will basically need two components.
1. URL querystring parsing, that will extract the information you need
from the URL (if it exists):
http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+%7Eparse+querystring+-perl
2. The pop-up window code. This is actually very trivial, but the
exact URL you use will depend on the server-side code of your
calendar. It will probably look something like this:
window.open('/calendar/event?eventid='+ id, ...);
where 'id' is a javascript variable holding the event id that you just
extracted from the URL in #1, and '...' are the other options in
window.open. See:
http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+%22window.open%22
Specifically, one of the results is a window.open code wizard. So,
that might be of particular help to you:
http://www.wizardscc.com/wizards/newwindow.asp
Good luck,
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From dan at danromanchik.com Fri Jan 7 13:20:38 2005
From: dan at danromanchik.com (Dan Romanchik)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:20:38 -0500
Subject: [thelist] Credit Card Processing with ZenCart
Message-ID: <058f01c4f4ed$f87d3c40$6501a8c0@D9J77B01>
Is there anyone here who's familiar with how ZenCart processes credit cards?
And I don't mean simply the setup, but the innards of the thing.
A couple of months ago, my ISP moved my website QTB.Com to a new server, and
ever since, it hasn't been recording the credit card number on an order. It
seems to do everything else correctly. It takes the order, records it in the
database, and sends out the appropriate e-mails.
It just doesn't record the CC #. I have it set up to record the outer eight
digits in the database and e-mail me the inner eight. Neither set of digits
is being handled correctly.
I had thought it was perhaps because I was using the 1.1.4 version, so I
installed the latest (version 1.2.2 at the time), but it has the same
problem.
I've posted this question to the ZenCart support forum, but no one there
seems to have a clue. One person tried helping me, but it seems as though
she's pretty much abandoned me now that the question is over her head. Via
the ZenCart website, I sent a private message to the guy that looks to be
the author of cc.php, the credit card processing module, but he never
responded.
I'd really hate to change ISPs as I have a number of websites on this host,
and up to this point, we've been able to resolve these problems quickly and
efficiently.
thanks in advance....
Dan
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dan at danromanchik.com, 734-930-6564
From evolt_org at striderweb.com Fri Jan 7 16:27:22 2005
From: evolt_org at striderweb.com (Stephen Rider)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:27:22 -0600
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To: <41DEBC7A.7080804@sc.rr.com>
References:
<41DE8F2F.6030205@sc.rr.com>
<41DEBC7A.7080804@sc.rr.com>
Message-ID: <4CDEBA55-60FB-11D9-8FB6-000A957FB6EA@striderweb.com>
On Jan 7, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Linda R. wrote:
>> < tip type="precise color matching to a background"*
>> If you want a gif to precisely match the background color of a web
>> page, you can use a solid-color gif as the background-image for the
>> Body (in addition to specifying it in HTML). The color of a gif will
>> match another same-color gif more reliably than it will a
>> HTML-specified RGB color
>
> Or you eliminate the problem altogether by making the background of
> your GIF transparent.
True.
Okay, forget gifs. Cross out the first instance of the word "gif" in
the tip above, and replace it with "Flash animation". AFAIK, you can't
make a flash background transparent.
So... what's the list etiquette here... do I post an amended Tip
(resulting in a double-harvest), or just leave it? For that matter,
does quoting a tip trip the harvester twice, or does it realize it's
looking at a duplicate?
Steve
From shiva at io.com Fri Jan 7 16:33:56 2005
From: shiva at io.com (Earl Cooley)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:33:56 -0600
Subject: [thelist] web-safe pallette
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20050107143709.02194008@mail.muinar.com>
References: <5.0.0.25.2.20050107143709.02194008@mail.muinar.com>
Message-ID: <41DF0E54.1020600@io.com>
Mike wrote:
> For me it doesn't make sense anymore. The 'web safe' colors weren't that
> safe anyway.
Excerpted from "Death of the Websafe Color Palette?" by David Lehn and
Hadley Stern:
"We found that only 22 of the 216 colors we began with did not end up
being shifted incorrectly in at least one viewing environment. So, it
looks like we have roughly 22 colors that are really websafe"
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html
--
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e=sc^ (shiva at io.com) Earl Cooley III (the "other" Earl)
From russgri at xarahost.com Fri Jan 7 19:03:24 2005
From: russgri at xarahost.com (russgri at xarahost.com)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:03:24 -0600
Subject: [thelist] Looking for a php "usps class" to
generateshippinglabels
References: <20050107183103.16CB1518776@mx1.nexiderm.com>
Message-ID: <010e01c4f51d$e24f96e0$3d19f445@russgri>
Open an ebay account....You can use the PayPal and Ebay tools for
other items than just ebay...
Russ Griechen
From Brian at hondaswap.com Fri Jan 7 19:10:10 2005
From: Brian at hondaswap.com (Brian Cummiskey)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:10:10 -0500
Subject: [thelist] 1and1.com web host ?
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <41DF32F2.60008@hondaswap.com>
Steve Bissonnette wrote:
>Has anyone had any experience with 1and1 web hosting ?
>
>http://www.1and1.com/
>
>
Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
:)
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From jonathan at boehm-ritter.com Fri Jan 7 19:10:38 2005
From: jonathan at boehm-ritter.com (Jonathan Dillon)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:10:38 -0800
Subject: [thelist] Looking for a php "usps class" togenerateshippinglabels
In-Reply-To: <010e01c4f51d$e24f96e0$3d19f445@russgri>
Message-ID: <20050108011602.D093D519BDE@mx1.nexiderm.com>
> Open an ebay account....You can use the PayPal and Ebay tools for other
items than just ebay...
Thanks Russ!
Unfortunately, they want .20 a transaction, and I have about 2000 a day. ;-)
Jonathan
From email at timburgan.com Sat Jan 8 05:16:21 2005
From: email at timburgan.com (Tim Burgan)
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:46:21 +1030
Subject: [thelist] [php] Using the OR operator in an IF statement
Message-ID: <41DFC105.3000406@timburgan.com>
Hello,
Can someone please correct me on my efforts below.
If I have a condition where I want to test if a variable is not equal to
"student", "staff", or "admin".. what's the simplest was to achieve that?
Here's what I tried.. that didn't work:
And also:
I must be using the OR operator the wrong way. Can someone please
correct me on this.
Thanks very much for your time.
Regards
Tim Burgan
From rick.good at shiesl.com Sat Jan 8 05:59:32 2005
From: rick.good at shiesl.com (Rick)
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:59:32 +0100
Subject: [thelist] [php] Using the OR operator in an IF statement
In-Reply-To: <41DFC105.3000406@timburgan.com>
Message-ID:
I think you need to use AND rather than OR. Rick
On 1/8/05 12:16 PM, "Tim Burgan" wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Can someone please correct me on my efforts below.
> If I have a condition where I want to test if a variable is not equal to
> "student", "staff", or "admin".. what's the simplest was to achieve that?
>
> Here's what I tried.. that didn't work:
>
> if ( ($_POST['usertype'] != "student") || ($_POST['usertype'] !=
> "staff") || ($_POST['usertype'] != "admin") )
> {
> // ...
> }
> ?>
>
> And also:
>
> if ( ($_POST['usertype'] != "student" || "staff" || "admin" )
> {
> // ...
> }
> ?>
>
> I must be using the OR operator the wrong way. Can someone please
> correct me on this.
>
> Thanks very much for your time.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim Burgan
>
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From gilles at balour.org Sat Jan 8 06:01:19 2005
From: gilles at balour.org (Gilles Beauregard)
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:01:19 -0500
Subject: [thelist] 1and1.com web host ?
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050108065353.04d2d970@pop.1and1.com>
Allo!
>Has anyone had any experience with 1and1 web hosting ?
>http://www.1and1.com/
I have a free account with then for about 1 years, and their big lack
is at the email level. Not all email reach the destination. Some
anti-spam ware are installed, but no detail on it. No fine tuning
present.
Also, the support for the free site are very limited. Paid site seem to be
good, but.
You can read interresting comment on a non-official board. You will find
the link
at the following page:
http://www.balour.org/coop/7/212177.htm
Good luck
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From manuel.gonzalez.noriega at gmail.com Sat Jan 8 06:25:44 2005
From: manuel.gonzalez.noriega at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_Gonz=E1lez_Noriega?=)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:25:44 +0100
Subject: [thelist] Does HEAD requests show up in server logs?
Message-ID:
Hi,
I'm building a public aggregator and there's this idea I want to
experiment with: that every access to
my_aggregator/your_blog/your_post issues a http HEAD request for
your_blog/your_post , so your access stats grow but your bandwith
isn't wasted.
What I need:
a) Confirmation that HEAD requests show up as page hits in server access logs
b) Opinion on the pseudo-philosofical issue that some one reading a
post by you in a public aggregator should be treated as one of you
readers stats-wise. I'm talking about full posts, not posts' entries.
TIA
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From philip at turmel.org Sat Jan 8 07:23:05 2005
From: philip at turmel.org (Phil Turmel)
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 08:23:05 -0500
Subject: [thelist] [php] Using the OR operator in an IF statement
In-Reply-To: <41DFC105.3000406@timburgan.com>
References: <41DFC105.3000406@timburgan.com>
Message-ID: <41DFDEB9.5090901@turmel.org>
Tim,
Your first try is syntactically acceptable, but will always be true,
since the OR operator returns true if any expression fed to it is true.
> if ( ($_POST['usertype'] != "student") || ($_POST['usertype'] !=
> "staff") || ($_POST['usertype'] != "admin") )
You have to be careful translating sloppy human languange "and/or"
wording since it doesn't usually match formal logic. Your verbage:
> ...test if a variable is not equal to
> "student", "staff", or "admin"..
would be most directly translated to:
if (!(($_POST['usertype']=="student")||($_POST['usertype']=="staff")||
($_POST['usertype']=="admin")))
Which, thanks to DeMorgan, can also be rearranged to:
if (($_POST['usertype']!="student")&&($_POST['usertype']!="staff")&&
($_POST['usertype']!="admin"))
Your other attempt will not work with any comparision operator, as PHP
needs a complete comparison for each item in an expression. PHP doesn't
give a syntax error since it helpfully tries to convert the second and
third strings into integers, ending up with zeros (false). If you
really want to list individual items without repeating the comparison
operator, use --switch-- instead of --if--, like this:
switch ($_POST['usertype']) {
case "student":
case "staff":
case "admin":
break;
default:
// ...
}
HTH,
Phil Turmel
Tim Burgan wrote:
>
> Here's what I tried.. that didn't work:
>
> {
> // ...
> }
> ?>
>
> And also:
>
> if ( ($_POST['usertype'] != "student" || "staff" || "admin" )
> {
> // ...
> }
> ?>
>
> I must be using the OR operator the wrong way. Can someone please
> correct me on this.
>
> Thanks very much for your time.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim Burgan
>
>
From mike at helpcenterlive.com Sat Jan 8 07:48:31 2005
From: mike at helpcenterlive.com (Help Center Live - Mike)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:48:31 +0000
Subject: [thelist] [php] Using the OR operator in an IF statement
In-Reply-To: <41DFDEB9.5090901@turmel.org>
References: <41DFC105.3000406@timburgan.com> <41DFDEB9.5090901@turmel.org>
Message-ID:
On 8 Jan 2005, at 13:23, Phil Turmel wrote:
> switch ($_POST['usertype']) {
> case "student":
> case "staff":
> case "admin":
> break;
> default:
> // ...
> }
I would also recommend an if function around that switch to make sure
that the POST var has been sent in the first place
if (isset($_POST['usertype'])) {
switch ($_POST['usertype']) {
case "student":
case "staff":
case "admin":
break;
default:
// ...
}
}
.. or ..
if (isset($_POST['usertype']) !== 'student' &&
isset($_POST['usertype']) !== 'staff' && isset($_POST['usertype']) !==
'admin') {
// ...
}
Mike
From evolt at mpember.net.au Sat Jan 8 07:49:40 2005
From: evolt at mpember.net.au (Michael Pemberton)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:49:40 +1100
Subject: [thelist] [php] Using the OR operator in an IF statement
In-Reply-To: <41DFC105.3000406@timburgan.com>
References: <41DFC105.3000406@timburgan.com>
Message-ID: <41DFE4F4.6090508@mpember.net.au>
Tim Burgan wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Can someone please correct me on my efforts below.
> If I have a condition where I want to test if a variable is not equal to
> "student", "staff", or "admin".. what's the simplest was to achieve that?
>
> Here's what I tried.. that didn't work:
>
> if ( ($_POST['usertype'] != "student") || ($_POST['usertype'] !=
> "staff") || ($_POST['usertype'] != "admin") )
> {
> // ...
> }
> ?>
>
> And also:
>
> if ( ($_POST['usertype'] != "student" || "staff" || "admin" )
> {
> // ...
> }
> ?>
>
> I must be using the OR operator the wrong way. Can someone please
> correct me on this.
>
> Thanks very much for your time.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim Burgan
>
>
Try:
$exclude = array("student", "staff", "admin");
if (in_array($_POST['usertype'], $exclude) != true) {
/// -> REST OF YOUR CODE
}
Hopefully this does what you need and leaves room for additional entries
for comparison when needed.
BTW, the reason who were having problems with the original code was
because of the logic being incorrect. The reason for this is that if
'usertype' == "admin", then both of the first conditions are met and the
section will be executed. I think you are not really looking for
something that is not A or B or C, you are looking for something that is
'not A' AND 'not B' AND 'not C'. The result is an equation that goes
like this:
if ( ($_POST['usertype'] != "student") && ($_POST['usertype'] !=
"staff") && ($_POST['usertype'] != "admin") )
OR THIS
if ( !(($_POST['usertype'] == "student") || ($_POST['usertype'] ==
"staff") || ($_POST['usertype'] == "admin")) )
Hopefully this make sense. Tt is 12:45am and I could just be rambling.
--
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evolt at mpember.net.au
From list at netpaths.net Sat Jan 8 18:48:33 2005
From: list at netpaths.net (Cayley Vos)
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:48:33 -0800
Subject: [thelist] re: Credit Card Processing with ZenCart
Message-ID:
what is your online gateway? Authorize.net or other?
Could be a problem with your offsite secure server
Cayley Vos, Principal
office: 310-372-3086
cell: 310-220-9020
http://www.netpaths.net
_______________________________________________________
web hosting | search engine marketing | web development
----
Is there anyone here who's familiar with how ZenCart processes credit
cards?
And I don't mean simply the setup, but the innards of the thing.
A couple of months ago, my ISP moved my website QTB.Com to a new server,
and
ever since, it hasn't been recording the credit card number on an order. It
seems to do everything else correctly. It takes the order, records it in
the
database, and sends out the appropriate e-mails.
It just doesn't record the CC #. I have it set up to record the outer eight
digits in the database and e-mail me the inner eight. Neither set of digits
is being handled correctly.
I had thought it was perhaps because I was using the 1.1.4 version, so I
installed the latest (version 1.2.2 at the time), but it has the same
problem.
I've posted this question to the ZenCart support forum, but no one there
seems to have a clue. One person tried helping me, but it seems as though
she's pretty much abandoned me now that the question is over her head. Via
the ZenCart website, I sent a private message to the guy that looks to be
the author of cc.php, the credit card processing module, but he never
responded.
I'd really hate to change ISPs as I have a number of websites on this host,
and up to this point, we've been able to resolve these problems quickly and
efficiently.
thanks in advance....
Dan
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From soundres9 at yahoo.com Sat Jan 8 18:47:39 2005
From: soundres9 at yahoo.com (klute)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:47:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050108065353.04d2d970@pop.1and1.com>
Message-ID: <20050109004739.87166.qmail@web50106.mail.yahoo.com>
hello all,
I have a css problem which i am hope to get some help
with. the issue is: if the right nav bar has more
content than the main content area, its content gets
pushed down over the footer. how would i resolve it?
here is the problem in action:
http://www.devbistro.com/wdf/
i appreciate any help!
james
p.s. if you see more problems with the layout besides
what i'd described above, i'd appreciate a quick email.
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From stanson at gmail.com Sat Jan 8 19:09:23 2005
From: stanson at gmail.com (Theodore Serbinski)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:09:23 -0500
Subject: [thelist] CSS help, styling lists
Message-ID:
Hi all,
So I'm having a bit of trouble, and yes, IE is causing me the trouble.
Take a look at this template:
http://www.cilon.com/asist/
I'm trying to get the menu to center vertically within the horizontal
blue bar, along with the search field but IE is not cooperating, no
matter what I try.
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Also, does anyone know how
in IE to make the menus appear like this in the mockup:
http://projects.userworks.com/asist/Prototypev10.htm
Looking at the hover state mostly, in Firefox it's easy to extend the
padding on the A tag but IE just grows the LI box so the border
expands too (instead of small).
Thanks!
ted
From lists at neptunewebworks.com Sat Jan 8 19:34:34 2005
From: lists at neptunewebworks.com (Maximillian Schwanekamp)
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:34:34 -0800
Subject: [thelist] Freelancer Accounting Software
Message-ID: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
Anyone have a good recommendation for a low-cost (<$100 USD) accounting
app (desktop or web-based) especially suited to freelance web dev
business? Many accounting packages seemed aimed at businesses with
inventory and lots of payroll issues. As a freelance webworker I have
neither of these. What do the other freelancers on the list use?
I looked at Quickbooks online, which seemed interesting except it's
IE-only, and that irks me. QB the desktop app is a bit more than I'm
willing to spend time or money on. Recommendations for what others have
actually used successfully for a year or more would be most appreciated.
TIA!
--
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Dynamic Websites and E-Commerce
NeptuneWebworks.com
voice: 541-302-1438
fax: 208-730-6504
From evolt_org at striderweb.com Sat Jan 8 20:41:14 2005
From: evolt_org at striderweb.com (Stephen Rider)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:41:14 -0600
Subject: [thelist] Freelancer Accounting Software
In-Reply-To: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
References: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
Message-ID:
On Jan 8, 2005, at 7:34 PM, Maximillian Schwanekamp wrote:
> Anyone have a good recommendation for a low-cost (<$100 USD)
> accounting app (desktop or web-based) especially suited to freelance
> web dev business? Many accounting packages seemed aimed at businesses
> with inventory and lots of payroll issues. As a freelance webworker I
> have neither of these. What do the other freelancers on the list use?
>
> I looked at Quickbooks online, which seemed interesting except it's
> IE-only, and that irks me. QB the desktop app is a bit more than I'm
> willing to spend time or money on.
For Mac OS X there is a pretty good program called iWork. It's worth a
look if you're on that OS.
Hmmm... Looks like they just changed the name to iBiz
Steve Rider
From rsennett at brainlink.com Sat Jan 8 22:06:13 2005
From: rsennett at brainlink.com (Rosalie Sennett)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:06:13 -0500
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <20050109004739.87166.qmail@web50106.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID:
Aren't the percentages on all the width designations going to make just
about anything move around depending upon the content?
Did you use the percentage in the width and fixed pixel in height for a
particular reason?
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> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 7:48 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
>
> hello all,
>
> I have a css problem which i am hope to get some help
> with. the issue is: if the right nav bar has more
> content than the main content area, its content gets
> pushed down over the footer. how would i resolve it?
> here is the problem in action:
> http://www.devbistro.com/wdf/
>
> i appreciate any help!
> james
>
> p.s. if you see more problems with the layout besides
> what i'd described above, i'd appreciate a quick email.
>
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From rsennett at brainlink.com Sat Jan 8 22:19:10 2005
From: rsennett at brainlink.com (Rosalie Sennett)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:19:10 -0500
Subject: [thelist] CSS help, styling lists
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Ted,
In assist.html, you show the three columns of the table where the entire
menu bar spans all three columns. But in the mockup jpg, the menu items
actually only colspan the first two columns and the search and go is really
in the third column with the background making it look like one big strip.
If you do it that way... the search and go should line up above the matching
column below. (theoretically)
r
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> bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Theodore Serbinski
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:09 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] CSS help, styling lists
>
> Hi all,
>
> So I'm having a bit of trouble, and yes, IE is causing me the trouble.
> Take a look at this template:
>
> http://www.cilon.com/asist/
>
> I'm trying to get the menu to center vertically within the horizontal
> blue bar, along with the search field but IE is not cooperating, no
> matter what I try.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Also, does anyone know how
> in IE to make the menus appear like this in the mockup:
> http://projects.userworks.com/asist/Prototypev10.htm
> Looking at the hover state mostly, in Firefox it's easy to extend the
> padding on the A tag but IE just grows the LI box so the border
> expands too (instead of small).
>
> Thanks!
>
> ted
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From mike at helpcenterlive.com Sun Jan 9 03:56:44 2005
From: mike at helpcenterlive.com (Help Center Live - Mike)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:56:44 +0000
Subject: [thelist] Freelancer Accounting Software
In-Reply-To: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
References: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
Message-ID:
What about the QuickBooks simple start? Thats $99.
http://quickbooks.intuit.com/commerce/catalog/product.jhtml?
priorityCode=0273400000&prodId=prod0000000000007975101&lid=nav
Mike
On 9 Jan 2005, at 01:34, Maximillian Schwanekamp wrote:
> Anyone have a good recommendation for a low-cost (<$100 USD)
> accounting app (desktop or web-based) especially suited to freelance
> web dev business? Many accounting packages seemed aimed at businesses
> with inventory and lots of payroll issues. As a freelance webworker I
> have neither of these. What do the other freelancers on the list use?
>
> I looked at Quickbooks online, which seemed interesting except it's
> IE-only, and that irks me. QB the desktop app is a bit more than I'm
> willing to spend time or money on. Recommendations for what others
> have actually used successfully for a year or more would be most
> appreciated.
>
> TIA!
>
> --
> Maximillian Von Schwanekamp
> Dynamic Websites and E-Commerce
> NeptuneWebworks.com
> voice: 541-302-1438
> fax: 208-730-6504
>
>
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From john at johnallsopp.co.uk Sun Jan 9 04:43:19 2005
From: john at johnallsopp.co.uk (john at johnallsopp.co.uk)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 05:43:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [thelist] Freelancer Accounting Software
In-Reply-To:
References: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
Message-ID: <50160.82.195.101.196.1105267399.squirrel@82.195.101.196>
>> What do the other freelancers on the list
>> use?
I love Quicken but it doesn't support invoicing (but for the few I use
I just open an account for each client and raise invoices manually).
I've recently moved to Linux and I'm looking forward to playing with
GnuCash which is like Quicken but with invoice support, I hear. It's
free too. QuickBooks looked very complicated when I saw it recently.
J
From tonyc at boldfish.co.uk Sun Jan 9 05:13:37 2005
From: tonyc at boldfish.co.uk (Tony Crockford)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:13:37 -0000
Subject: [thelist] Freelancer Accounting Software
In-Reply-To: <50160.82.195.101.196.1105267399.squirrel@82.195.101.196>
References: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
<50160.82.195.101.196.1105267399.squirrel@82.195.101.196>
Message-ID:
At 10:43 on Sunday, 09 Jan 2005, wrote:
>>> What do the other freelancers on the list
>>> use?
>
> I love Quicken but it doesn't support invoicing (but for the few I use
> I just open an account for each client and raise invoices manually).
> I've recently moved to Linux and I'm looking forward to playing with
> GnuCash which is like Quicken but with invoice support, I hear. It's
> free too. QuickBooks looked very complicated when I saw it recently.
My version of Quicken (Quicken 2000 deluxe) has support for Customer
invoices. (and I'm running it on WinXP)
I've been using Quicken for many years. I never upgraded to later
versions, because they didn't seem to offer much extra for the extra money.
you can still buy older versions of Quicken from Amazon.
hth
;o)
From evolt at mpember.net.au Sun Jan 9 05:48:42 2005
From: evolt at mpember.net.au (Michael Pemberton)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:48:42 +1100
Subject: [thelist] Freelancer Accounting Software
In-Reply-To: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
References: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
Message-ID: <41E11A1A.1010403@mpember.net.au>
Maximillian Schwanekamp wrote:
> Anyone have a good recommendation for a low-cost (<$100 USD) accounting
> app (desktop or web-based) especially suited to freelance web dev
> business? Many accounting packages seemed aimed at businesses with
> inventory and lots of payroll issues. As a freelance webworker I have
> neither of these. What do the other freelancers on the list use?
>
> I looked at Quickbooks online, which seemed interesting except it's
> IE-only, and that irks me. QB the desktop app is a bit more than I'm
> willing to spend time or money on. Recommendations for what others have
> actually used successfully for a year or more would be most appreciated.
>
> TIA!
>
Like yourself, I wasn't happy with the options that were out there.
They were either badly done, or too feature-rich. My solution: I wrote
my own.
I know it may seem like a bit of an extreme measure, but it meant that I
got exactly what I needed. It took me a few goes to get it just right.
With a bit of PHP code and MySQL for record storage, I was able to put
together a simple job/task invoice system that can grow as my needs change.
In addition to to simple method of data entry, I was able to quickly put
together a PDF invoice option that allows me to print / email my invoices.
Since I don't have any TAX to take into account when invoicing, this is
not included, but can be quickly added by modifying the source.
Another feature that is simple to add is one that would schedule a
weekly run of invoices and email them to the clients.
--
Michael Pemberton
evolt at mpember.net.au
From evoltlist at delime.com Sun Jan 9 08:53:24 2005
From: evoltlist at delime.com (M. Seyon)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:53:24 -0400
Subject: [thelist] CSS help, styling lists
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20050109102337.00ad78b0@mx.delime.com>
Message from Theodore Serbinski (1/8/2005 09:09 PM)
>Hi all,
>
>So I'm having a bit of trouble, and yes, IE is causing me the trouble.
>Take a look at this template:
>
>http://www.cilon.com/asist/
>
>I'm trying to get the menu to center vertically within the horizontal
>blue bar, along with the search field but IE is not cooperating, no
>matter what I try.
I don't know the technical details but it appears that an inline box
doesn't respond to top or bottom margin or padding. You can however use
line-height, and vertical-align.
I applied a line-height of 2em to your #globalmenu li selector and it
solved the problem.
>Also, does anyone know how
>in IE to make the menus appear like this in the mockup:
> http://projects.userworks.com/asist/Prototypev10.htm
>Looking at the hover state mostly, in Firefox it's easy to extend the
>padding on the A tag but IE just grows the LI box so the border
>expands too (instead of small).
Not sure what you're asking here. I don't see any hover state displayed in
the mockup.
regards.
-marc
--
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From evoltlist at delime.com Sun Jan 9 09:02:18 2005
From: evoltlist at delime.com (M. Seyon)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:02:18 -0400
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <20050109004739.87166.qmail@web50106.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050108065353.04d2d970@pop.1and1.com>
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20050109105503.01f0a9a0@mx.delime.com>
Message from klute (1/8/2005 08:47 PM)
>hello all,
>
>I have a css problem which i am hope to get some help
>with. the issue is: if the right nav bar has more
>content than the main content area, its content gets
>pushed down over the footer. how would i resolve it?
>here is the problem in action:
>http://www.devbistro.com/wdf/
The rightbar div (and I would personally rethink this name to something
more indicative of the content it contains rather than where it appears on
screen, as it'd be kinda silly if you ever decided to redesign the site and
put this content on the left) is absolutely positioned, so it doesn't
affect the document flow.
The footer will position itself immediately after the normally positioned
body div. That's one of the consequences of haphazard use of absolute
positioning, I'm afraid. There are other ways to implement that layout that
don't rely on absolute positioning because really, it's not a very
complicated one.
Both Rosalie and myself posted useful links to better understand
positioning in your earlier thread titled "CSS expert opinion needed". Go
take a closer read.
regards.
-marc
--
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From soundres9 at yahoo.com Sun Jan 9 09:55:43 2005
From: soundres9 at yahoo.com (klute)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 07:55:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20050109105503.01f0a9a0@mx.delime.com>
Message-ID: <20050109155543.89297.qmail@web50110.mail.yahoo.com>
rosalie and marc and others, thanks for your replies.
to give you some background: someone built the layout
for me based on a template (
http://www.cssdev.com/csslayouts/vertical/two_column/fluid_right.htm
) frome the site recommended by cody. i felt it was ok
to go with the absolute positioning for the right nav
(marc, you are right, i'll change the name of that to
vertbar or something) since the template has a decent
browser support and states: "All of these templates
are hack free and have been tested on IE 5+ Win/Mac,
Opera 6+, Firefox 0.8+ and Konqueror."
anyway, because of the latest problem i hit with
absolute positioning that i just came to know, i
decided to switch to the relative positioning for the
vertical bar ( http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html ).
now, the header nav images don't show up but that's
obviously a different problem i have to tackle.
thanks a lot to all for your help with this
james
--- "M. Seyon" wrote:
> Message from klute (1/8/2005 08:47 PM)
> >hello all,
> >
> >I have a css problem which i am hope to get some
> help
> >with. the issue is: if the right nav bar has more
> >content than the main content area, its content
> gets
> >pushed down over the footer. how would i resolve
> it?
> >here is the problem in action:
> >http://www.devbistro.com/wdf/
>
> The rightbar div (and I would personally rethink
> this name to something
> more indicative of the content it contains rather
> than where it appears on
> screen, as it'd be kinda silly if you ever decided
> to redesign the site and
> put this content on the left) is absolutely
> positioned, so it doesn't
> affect the document flow.
>
> The footer will position itself immediately after
> the normally positioned
> body div. That's one of the consequences of
> haphazard use of absolute
> positioning, I'm afraid. There are other ways to
> implement that layout that
> don't rely on absolute positioning because really,
> it's not a very
> complicated one.
>
> Both Rosalie and myself posted useful links to
> better understand
> positioning in your earlier thread titled "CSS
> expert opinion needed". Go
> take a closer read.
>
> regards.
> -marc
>
> --
> Trinidad Carnival in all its photographic glory.
> Playyuhself.com
> http://www.playyuhself.com/
> --
>
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From joshua at waetech.com Sun Jan 9 10:47:22 2005
From: joshua at waetech.com (Joshua Olson)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:47:22 -0500
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <20050109155543.89297.qmail@web50110.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: klute
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:56 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
>
> ) frome the site recommended by cody. i felt it was ok
> to go with the absolute positioning for the right nav
> (marc, you are right, i'll change the name of that to
> vertbar or something)
James,
I think you may have missed Marc's point. If you name it vertbar, then you
haven't solved the problem of an inappropriate name if you ever decide to
redo the styling so that the information is horizontal or something else.
It would make more sense to name the region based on what's in it, not it's
placement on the page. In this case, perhap something like "featured_firms"
or "featfirms"?
<><><><><><><><><><>
Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168
From evoltlist at delime.com Sun Jan 9 11:11:43 2005
From: evoltlist at delime.com (M. Seyon)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:11:43 -0400
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <20050109155543.89297.qmail@web50110.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <4.2.0.58.20050109105503.01f0a9a0@mx.delime.com>
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20050109125215.00adbae0@mx.delime.com>
Message from klute (1/9/2005 11:55 AM)
>rosalie and marc and others, thanks for your replies.
>
>to give you some background: someone built the layout
>for me based on a template (
>http://www.cssdev.com/csslayouts/vertical/two_column/fluid_right.htm
>) frome the site recommended by cody.
Please note that this is in no way a criticism or attack on that site, but
by the author's own admission, over on the CSS-D mailing list, he's "been
designing with standards now for just over 6 months". (This was in his post
announcing his new site - cssdev.com - on October 3rd 2004.)
Additionally his only posts to that list, which is probably the most
definitive CSS-specific discussion list around, were the thread where he
announced that new site and subsequent replies to that thread.
I personally would stick with templates developed by people with far
lengthier experience and demonstrated problem-solving abilities.
In addition to the links previously given to the noodleincident site and
the brainjar article, http://www.positioniseverything.net/index.php is
another excellent resource. Though it doesn't have templates, it links to
many useful sites, some of which do.
>(marc, you are right, i'll change the name of that to
>vertbar or something)
Minor point here, but... what happens when you decide you want to present
the content horizontally?
Don't name the container based on where it is or what it looks like. Name
it by what it contains. You didn't say #boxontop or #boxbelow did you? You
said #header and #footer
>( http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html ).
>now, the header nav images don't show up but that's
>obviously a different problem i have to tackle.
Why are you putting the images in the background? Seems like you're just
making life difficult for yourself.
I think they're not showing because they're referenced as
url(../images/advertise_hover.gif)
Based on the url http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html, the absolute url
that's referencing is http://devbistro.com/images/advertise_hover.gif
Remove the ../ so it'll reference
http://devbistro.com/wdf/images/advertise_hover.gif
regards.
-marc
--
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http://www.playyuhself.com/
From evoltlist at delime.com Sun Jan 9 11:47:01 2005
From: evoltlist at delime.com (M. Seyon)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:47:01 -0400
Subject: underscores in CSS (was RE: [thelist] CSS layout help needed)
In-Reply-To: <1105289532.31635@mx.webminders.com>
References: <20050109155543.89297.qmail@web50110.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20050109134526.020fc540@mx.delime.com>
Message from Joshua Olson (1/9/2005 12:47 PM)
>In this case, perhap something like "featured_firms"
>or "featfirms"?
Do any current browsers still not understand underscores in selector names?
Or is it only the oldies like NN4 and early Opera versions?
I personally avoid them anyways but would be good to know.
regards.
-marc
--
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From soundres9 at yahoo.com Sun Jan 9 12:27:03 2005
From: soundres9 at yahoo.com (klute)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:27:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20050109125215.00adbae0@mx.delime.com>
Message-ID: <20050109182703.60075.qmail@web50103.mail.yahoo.com>
Marc,
Your point re: the template i used is well taken.
you are right about the path to the images, taking out
the "../" from relative image urls solved it. the
#rightbar was reincarnated as #extlinks. here is the
latest layout: http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html
as far as putting nav images in the background vs
using javascript (i assume that's what you meant as an
alternative), my coder did that. not sure why. would
you use the javascript way instead? and why?
best,
james
--- "M. Seyon" wrote:
> Message from klute (1/9/2005 11:55 AM)
> >rosalie and marc and others, thanks for your
> replies.
> >
> >to give you some background: someone built the
> layout
> >for me based on a template (
>
>http://www.cssdev.com/csslayouts/vertical/two_column/fluid_right.htm
> >) frome the site recommended by cody.
>
> Please note that this is in no way a criticism or
> attack on that site, but
> by the author's own admission, over on the CSS-D
> mailing list, he's "been
> designing with standards now for just over 6
> months". (This was in his post
> announcing his new site - cssdev.com - on October
> 3rd 2004.)
>
> Additionally his only posts to that list, which is
> probably the most
> definitive CSS-specific discussion list around, were
> the thread where he
> announced that new site and subsequent replies to
> that thread.
>
> I personally would stick with templates developed by
> people with far
> lengthier experience and demonstrated
> problem-solving abilities.
>
> In addition to the links previously given to the
> noodleincident site and
> the brainjar article,
> http://www.positioniseverything.net/index.php is
> another excellent resource. Though it doesn't have
> templates, it links to
> many useful sites, some of which do.
>
> >(marc, you are right, i'll change the name of that
> to
> >vertbar or something)
>
> Minor point here, but... what happens when you
> decide you want to present
> the content horizontally?
>
> Don't name the container based on where it is or
> what it looks like. Name
> it by what it contains. You didn't say #boxontop or
> #boxbelow did you? You
> said #header and #footer
>
> >( http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html ).
> >now, the header nav images don't show up but that's
> >obviously a different problem i have to tackle.
>
> Why are you putting the images in the background?
> Seems like you're just
> making life difficult for yourself.
>
> I think they're not showing because they're
> referenced as
> url(../images/advertise_hover.gif)
>
> Based on the url
> http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html, the absolute
> url
> that's referencing is
> http://devbistro.com/images/advertise_hover.gif
>
> Remove the ../ so it'll reference
> http://devbistro.com/wdf/images/advertise_hover.gif
>
> regards.
> -marc
>
> --
> Trinidad Carnival in all its photographic glory.
> Playyuhself.com
> http://www.playyuhself.com/
> --
>
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From soundres9 at yahoo.com Sun Jan 9 12:30:42 2005
From: soundres9 at yahoo.com (klute)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:30:42 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
Message-ID: <20050109183042.88036.qmail@web50105.mail.yahoo.com>
Joshua,
Thanks a lot for your comment. it makes total sense.
my #rightbar now became #extlinks as it is likely to
contain "featured firms", "recommended resources" and
other external links
best,
james
--- Joshua Olson wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: klute
> > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:56 AM
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: Re: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
> >
> > ) frome the site recommended by cody. i felt it
> was ok
> > to go with the absolute positioning for the right
> nav
> > (marc, you are right, i'll change the name of that
> to
> > vertbar or something)
>
> James,
>
> I think you may have missed Marc's point. If you
> name it vertbar, then you
> haven't solved the problem of an inappropriate name
> if you ever decide to
> redo the styling so that the information is
> horizontal or something else.
> It would make more sense to name the region based on
> what's in it, not it's
> placement on the page. In this case, perhap
> something like "featured_firms"
> or "featfirms"?
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From joshua at waetech.com Sun Jan 9 13:59:38 2005
From: joshua at waetech.com (Joshua Olson)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:59:38 -0500
Subject: underscores in CSS (was RE: [thelist] CSS layout help needed)
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20050109134526.020fc540@mx.delime.com>
Message-ID:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Seyon
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:47 PM
>
> Message from Joshua Olson (1/9/2005 12:47 PM)
> >In this case, perhap something like "featured_firms"
> >or "featfirms"?
>
> Do any current browsers still not understand underscores in
> selector names?
> Or is it only the oldies like NN4 and early Opera versions?
>
> I personally avoid them anyways but would be good to know.
Back in 2002, James Aylard spoke up on this subject:
http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20020311/106624.html
It appears NS up to version 6 still has problems:
http://www.uwplatt.edu/web/wtc/quirks/CSSq.html
<><><><><><><><><><>
Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168
From evoltlist at delime.com Sun Jan 9 14:09:25 2005
From: evoltlist at delime.com (M. Seyon)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:09:25 -0400
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <20050109182703.60075.qmail@web50103.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <4.2.0.58.20050109125215.00adbae0@mx.delime.com>
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20050109160722.00ab4030@mx.delime.com>
Message from klute (1/9/2005 02:27 PM)
>Marc,
>
>Your point re: the template i used is well taken.
>
>you are right about the path to the images, taking out
>the "../" from relative image urls solved it. the
>#rightbar was reincarnated as #extlinks. here is the
>latest layout: http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html
>
>as far as putting nav images in the background vs
>using javascript (i assume that's what you meant as an
>alternative), my coder did that. not sure why. would
>you use the javascript way instead? and why?
What do you need the javascript for?
Why wouldn't the good old ![]() method work?
regards.
-marc
--
Trinidad Carnival in all its photographic glory. Playyuhself.com
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From evoltlist at delime.com Sun Jan 9 15:26:45 2005
From: evoltlist at delime.com (M. Seyon)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:26:45 -0400
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
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Message from klute (1/9/2005 02:27 PM)
>Marc,
>
>as far as putting nav images in the background vs
>using javascript (i assume that's what you meant as an
>alternative), my coder did that. not sure why. would
>you use the javascript way instead? and why?
Very basic reproduction of your navigation design. It doesn't require any
images or javascript.
http://milsweb.f2o.org/testing/thickbottomborderlinks.html
regards.
-marc
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From harvester at lists.evolt.org Sun Jan 9 18:00:10 2005
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From lists at neptunewebworks.com Sun Jan 9 18:53:19 2005
From: lists at neptunewebworks.com (Maximillian Schwanekamp)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:53:19 -0800
Subject: [thelist] Freelancer Accounting Software
In-Reply-To: <41E11A1A.1010403@mpember.net.au>
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<41E11A1A.1010403@mpember.net.au>
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Michael Pemberton wrote:
> Like yourself, I wasn't happy with the options that were out there. They
> were either badly done, or too feature-rich. My solution: I wrote my own.
>
> I know it may seem like a bit of an extreme measure, but it meant that I
> got exactly what I needed. It took me a few goes to get it just right.
> With a bit of PHP code and MySQL for record storage, I was able to put
> together a simple job/task invoice system that can grow as my needs change.
>
> In addition to to simple method of data entry, I was able to quickly put
> together a PDF invoice option that allows me to print / email my invoices.
LOL, I like that idea the best! I'm using Win XP primarily (I've also a
G3/OSX for testing too) which I should've specified initially (thanks
though, Stephen). Seems that most are recommending Intuit apps, so I'll
look there, and ignore the others. But only a little - after which I'll
just build the thing.
Thanks for the responses!
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NeptuneWebworks.com
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From soundres9 at yahoo.com Sun Jan 9 19:27:19 2005
From: soundres9 at yahoo.com (klute)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:27:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
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Message-ID: <20050110012719.99547.qmail@web50102.mail.yahoo.com>
Marc,
got it. i thought you wer talking about impementing
img rollovers using javascript. your suggestion sounds
good. i'll look into it.
thanks again for everything
james
--- "M. Seyon" wrote:
> Message from klute (1/9/2005 02:27 PM)
> >Marc,
> >
> >as far as putting nav images in the background vs
> >using javascript (i assume that's what you meant as
> an
> >alternative), my coder did that. not sure why.
> would
> >you use the javascript way instead? and why?
>
> Very basic reproduction of your navigation design.
> It doesn't require any
> images or javascript.
>
http://milsweb.f2o.org/testing/thickbottomborderlinks.html
>
> regards.
> -marc
>
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> http://www.playyuhself.com/
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From evoltlist at delime.com Sun Jan 9 20:21:08 2005
From: evoltlist at delime.com (M. Seyon)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:21:08 -0400
Subject: [thelist] CSS layout help needed
In-Reply-To: <20050110012719.99547.qmail@web50102.mail.yahoo.com>
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Message from klute (1/9/2005 09:27 PM)
>Marc,
>
>got it. i thought you wer talking about impementing
>img rollovers using javascript. your suggestion sounds
>good. i'll look into it.
No, I'm just not really keen on the idea of putting content - a clickable
image that leads to another page is content - in the background. I think
it's just one of several areas where the "separation of content and
presentation" mantra has gotten out of hand.
That's for another discussion though.
regards.
-marc
--
Trinidad Carnival in all its photographic glory. Playyuhself.com
http://www.playyuhself.com/
From evoltlist at delime.com Sun Jan 9 20:25:20 2005
From: evoltlist at delime.com (M. Seyon)
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:25:20 -0400
Subject: [thelist] Freelancer Accounting Software
In-Reply-To: <41E11A1A.1010403@mpember.net.au>
References: <41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
<41E08A2A.3070700@neptunewebworks.com>
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Message from Michael Pemberton (1/9/2005 07:48 AM)
>Like yourself, I wasn't happy with the options that were out there. They
>were either badly done, or too feature-rich. My solution: I wrote my own.
I'm in the process of doing exactly that for myself, and it doesn't sound
at all like an extreme measure to me.
It ensures I get exactly what I want, I have an excellent understanding of
what it does, and can extend it as necessary.
Plus, it gives me the opportunity to wear two hats - the developer and the
client, and although it's somewhat biased it aids in understanding
requirements and project scope and specifications.
regards.
-marc
--
Trinidad Carnival in all its photographic glory. Playyuhself.com
http://www.playyuhself.com/
From joshua at waetech.com Sun Jan 9 21:44:41 2005
From: joshua at waetech.com (Joshua Olson)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:44:41 -0500
Subject: [thelist] Meta-Information was CSS layout help needed
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Message-ID:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Seyon
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:21 PM
>
> Message from klute (1/9/2005 09:27 PM)
> >Marc,
> >
> >got it. i thought you wer talking about impementing
> >img rollovers using javascript. your suggestion sounds
> >good. i'll look into it.
>
> No, I'm just not really keen on the idea of putting content -
> a clickable
> image that leads to another page is content - in the
> background. I think
> it's just one of several areas where the "separation of content and
> presentation" mantra has gotten out of hand.
>
> That's for another discussion though.
Marc,
Consider this:
Images convey little or no currently-indexible information. This means that
the link would lose some of its semantic value if the image is used to
represent the link. However, when a link is text there is a general
understanding that the link within the text accurately (at least if the site
is well designed!) the target of the link. Through CSS it is possible to
keep the text within the link while making the link display as a graphic to
the user. If you are one of those who share the vision of a web where
elements on a page carry a semantic meaning and where data can be indexed
and searched as a massive, disorganized, yet somehow integrated and
distributed database, then the advantage of maintaining as much
context-information as possible should be apparent.
I do conceded that there are other, and established, ways to convey meaning
of links... title attribute for example. However, at this moment these
attributes receive much less weight than they deserve. So, link text is
very important.
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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168
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