which
links to a page with 
. On supporting browsers,
users going to the second page will see the small picture "blown up" until
the large picture replaces it. Since the visitor has probably just come
from the thumbnails page, picture-small.jpg is probably already cached,
minimizing the overhead required for lowSrc.
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>Also,the guys that programmed UNIX used Macs and everybody knows that they
>programmed UNIX just as a kind of joke.
>
Say what? Where in the world did you get that idea?
UNIX was developed by Ken Thompson a Bell Labs researcher on a PDP-7 (a DEC
machine) minicomputer. He had helped work on the defunct MULTICS (MULTiplexed
Information and Computing Service) project and wrote a scaled down version of
MULTICS. One of the other researchers jokingly called the new OS UNICS for
UNiplexed Information and Computing Service. Despite the conotations of EUNUCHs
the castrated MULTICS the name stuck. Later the name was changed to UNIX. The
original UNIX was written in assembler, and then later ported to C by Thompson
and Dennis Ritchie. This was all accomplished by the year 1974.
The Motorola 68000 chip, which Macs were based upon, was not developed until
1979.
Just clearing up a little history...
Stuart Knetsch
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>Is their anyway to suppress automated GIF
>images in either Internet Explorer or Netscape,
>while still displaying normal images?
I don't know how many people know about this, but
Muffin a java-based filtering proxy has an animated GIF killer--
you can limit it to n iterations or kill it altogether.
You can find muffin at
http://muffin.doit.org/
You'll need to get a way of running Java byte code--either the
JDK 1.1.3 or the JRE will do--you can get those at
http://www.javasoft.com/
James
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James T. Hsiao
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~hsiao/
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- For private concerns, e-mailing or just Cc-ing someone in the NG is a risk
of being spammed. If I were to set-up a list of addresses specifically
targetted at, say, "HTML people", I would regularly post some well-prepared
questions to an HTML NG asking for mail answers, and automatically collect
the received emails. I would then build me a nice list, and could use it for
spam, or re-sell it to any spammers.
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It is possible to make a link that will change two frames, and can be done with
the following code:
This little snippet uses javascript subtlely embedded in ordinary household
HTML.
--
nick pisarro
nickp@futuris.net
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http://www.lava.net/%7edewilson/web/thumb.html
You are a guest in your reader's environment
When you visit the home of someone you've never met, do you
immediately tell them to replace their carpet or rearrange their
furniture? Do you carry a portable stereo into their homes and turn it
up with your favorite music?
Each of the following is just as rude:
* telling the reader to get a new browser
* expecting the reader to resize their page to fit your design
* playing background sounds that the user can't control
* setting type size or font in ways that the reader cannot override
It isn't simply that you don't know what your reader's environment
might be, but you don't and can't know what things might be important
to them, or why. Anything you do which forces conditions on your
reader might violate some basic need that determines how they
configure their system. Telling a reader to reconfigure their system
just to accommodate your page is rude; if it does so in a way to
breaks their work routine, they will probably leave your page
immediately.
And you'll never know.
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> > hmmmm.... I guess there is no point in telling you that an ordered
> > directory will _save_ work...
>
> But it only saves work if the directory will really ever contain something.
Eh? But your homepage _will_ contain something in the future, right? I
mean, wouldn't it be better to build the house first and move in the
furniture afterwards...
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I think a large part of the problem in recent years is that the user
population of Usenet has grown so rapidly that the newbies outnumber
experienced users. In the past, a newbie would be coming in to a
discussion where most of the participants were experienced, and he/she
would pick up cues from them. Nowadays, newbies are more likely to be
picking up cues from other newbies. This has, IMHO, led to much less
civilized behavior. I do *not*, however, subscribe to the popular notion
that the use of GUI news clients has allowed "less intelligent" people to
join Usenet, accounting for the lowered level of discussion. IQ, SAT
scores and technical knowledge have very little to do with how civilly one
interacts with others (people with developmental disabilities that affect
intelligence, for example, are no more likely to be assholes than
"normal" people).
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Q: How many bad web-designers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but you end up with a really garish red neon light that draws
a lot of power and emits a constant, annoying buzzing sound.
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How many web designers does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one to change it, and change it, and change it, and change it, ....
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How many designers does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, the lightbulb is Netscape and the socket is Internet Explorer.
None, the lightbulb is 800x600 and the socket is 640x480.
None, Front Page does not have this feature.
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What was Louis the XVI's (or Charles the Ist if you're british) most feared
HTML code?
What is Kung Fu's favorite HTML code?
What is O.J.s favorite HTML code? ...and ... tags. (WARNING! may look like a monospaced font on your computer but not on somebody else's... Don't do it that way! Use
and !) The infamous Lynx users will always get a monospaced font. This is not your problem! (In fact it is not _a_ problem!) Somebody may have set his browser to use a proportional font when it should use a monospaced font. This is not your problem either! (It is that person's problem! Either he has done it on purpose, in which case he should be quite happy about the situation or change back. Else he may have done it by mistake, but that is still not your problem! To say that that is your problem would be like saying it is your problem if I can't print out your page because I had forgotten to fill my printer with paper...). -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Then you started in the wrong place. Both Boutell's old FAQ and the currently best FAQ that we have for this group give you the necessary hints, even though it isn't an HTML authoring question as such, but a server configuration issue. See http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/wdgfaq.htm#6 FAQs are your friend. Take one frequently, and especially when the symptoms occur. Alan J. Flavell %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% An alternative solution (that will work only in Netscape 3 and up) is to use a "JavaScript include" of sorts. You can write :