Apoch's Programming FAQ -- please post Web related tips here!

[mlewis]

This is a continuation of the Programming FAQ thread in the General VB forum, but this thread is for web tips only!

Thanks for your contributions!

[mendhak]

well... umm...

avoid using the LAYER tag, as NN and IE have a conflict with that. Instead use the DIV tag.

is that a web tip...? or should I delete this?

[mlewis]

That could be a tip, I guess. But what I am looking for is more like cool stuff you can do (for examples, see link in my signature)

[sebs]

Originally posted by mendhak
well... umm...

avoid using the LAYER tag, as NN and IE have a conflict with that. Instead use the DIV tag.

yeah you're right, but the onMouseOver does not
work in NN on a div, you have to use a layer tag, but beside
that, everything else seem ok!

[mendhak]

sorry lewis, I'm not that good, but I'll put one anyway...

To avoid the trauma and torture of the browser wars, wherein something works in NN and not in IE, or vice versa,
just AVOID IT!

place a sniffer on your very first page, and redirect the users to the browser website of your choice.

heeeeeeeee.

hint: Netscape users account for about 15% of web users. Ditch 'em.

(PS: no intention to start a flame)

[mlewis]

All I have to do is put a big disclaimer that says "if you use a sucky browser (read: Not I.E.) then this may not work. If it breaks, its your fault for choosing a piece of junk."

OK so itd be a bit nicer than that, but thats the basic idea

[JoshT]

Originally posted by mlewis
All I have to do is put a big disclaimer that says "if you use a sucky browser (read: Not I.E.) then this may not work. If it breaks, its your fault for choosing a piece of junk."

OK so itd be a bit nicer than that, but thats the basic idea

I'm going to open up a gas station, and put a big disclaimer that syas "if you use a sucky automobile (read: Not Nissan) then this gasoline may not work, its your fault for driving a piece of junk."

How long would I be in business?

[mlewis]

I'm not selling my code for one thing; for another, I.E. has a bigger market share than Nissan does.

[mendhak]

some guy in this forum told me 17 million netscape users. by my calculations, that's 100 million IE users then. who do u choose?


Here's another useless web tip. When working for CROSS BROWSER COMPATIBILITY (contradiction, no?)

use this

<SCRIPT Language="javascript">
function init(){
if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") {
layerStyleRef="layer.";
layerref="document.layers";
styleswitch="";
pxSwitch="";
}else{
layerStyleRef="layer.style.";
layerref="document.all";
styleswitch=".style";
pxSwitch="px";
}

}
</SCRIPT>

now you can manipulate the various layers using this.

[sebs]

another tip would be,

whenever you do a check and then a redirection, you know
when you press back and it come back!

use

location.replace

it does not create a new entry in the history list, it replace
the current one!

[JoshT]

Originally posted by mlewis
I'm not selling my code for one thing; for another, I.E. has a bigger market share than Nissan does.

I predict this will decrease in the future. More and more devices that are not PC's will be connected to the Internet, and there's a good chance they won't be running IE. AOL is eventually going to dump IE, and Linux is growing in popularity...

Also, you say you code for IE, but do you test the Solaris version of IE? How about the HP-UX version? And the Mac version generally supports W3 standards before the Windows version.

[sebs]

if you want to loop thru your text box

function cycle() {
    var answer = '';
    for (var i = 0; i<document.formName.elements.length; i++) {
        if ((document.formName.elements[i].name.indexOf('Text') > -1)) {
           	if(document.formName.elements[i].value.length<0){
			alert('Your missing some info');
			document.formName.elements[i].select();
			document.formName.elements[i].focus(); 
			break();          	
           	}
        }
    }
}

[mendhak]

that's a good one sebs.
I wonder if anyone's even reading this stuff...


a lot of people like changing their scroll bar colors, and here's how.

<style type="text/css">
body{
scrollbar-face-color:#BD7268; 
scrollbar-arrow-color:#f8e8d0;
scrollbar-track-color:#f8e8d0; 
scrollbar-shadow-color:black;
scrollbar-highlight-color:#f8e8d0;
scrollbar-3dlight-color:black;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color:black;
}

</style>

play with the colors.

[mlewis]

Bleh! Slow down! Gotta get those posted

[sebs]

this one is for flash,

you can pass parameters to your movie

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=600 HEIGHT=24> 
	<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="special.swf?msg=<%=msg%>"> 
	<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> 
	<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> 
	<EMBED src="special.swf?msg=<%=msg%>" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF  WIDTH=600 HEIGHT=24 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>

my above code is mixed with asp, so my msg come from asp!
msg is a text box in my movie

[sebs]

asp tips,

if you need to display a lot of item row by row,

ex: list of book with their desc on the right, etc...

usually you put it in a table separated by row, and when
the page is done it appears on the screen!

well instead, if you do in separate table, they will
come out one by one, so the user don't thinkg that it takes forever
to load the page!