Rants of the Day
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1. Why does Firefox refuse to be sensible with setting the width of a File upload control 2. Why does IE report Zip file uploads as application/octet-stream instead of /zip? 3. Why does Firefox return getElementByTagName("body") as a collection whereas IE returns a single element 4. Why aren't browser makers forced onto an island with an assortment of sharp, messy weapons to duke it out and settle on a single standard. How hard can it be to decide on what "width" means? Or on how to insert some text into a page?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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1. Why does Firefox refuse to be sensible with setting the width of a File upload control 2. Why does IE report Zip file uploads as application/octet-stream instead of /zip? 3. Why does Firefox return getElementByTagName("body") as a collection whereas IE returns a single element 4. Why aren't browser makers forced onto an island with an assortment of sharp, messy weapons to duke it out and settle on a single standard. How hard can it be to decide on what "width" means? Or on how to insert some text into a page?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
That really depends on what you mean by "width" and "text". At the Planck scale, what is "width"? And "text"? What is that. Did you read the browser manual?
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1. Why does Firefox refuse to be sensible with setting the width of a File upload control 2. Why does IE report Zip file uploads as application/octet-stream instead of /zip? 3. Why does Firefox return getElementByTagName("body") as a collection whereas IE returns a single element 4. Why aren't browser makers forced onto an island with an assortment of sharp, messy weapons to duke it out and settle on a single standard. How hard can it be to decide on what "width" means? Or on how to insert some text into a page?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
How hard can it be to decide on what "width" means? Or on how to insert some text into a page?
You may as well ask "What is the meaning of life?" or "Why can't they cure the common cold?" :)
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Chris Maunder wrote:
How hard can it be to decide on what "width" means? Or on how to insert some text into a page?
You may as well ask "What is the meaning of life?" or "Why can't they cure the common cold?" :)
Ed Gadziemski wrote:
"Why can't they cure the common cold?"
That's an easy one, it's a virus.
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1. Why does Firefox refuse to be sensible with setting the width of a File upload control 2. Why does IE report Zip file uploads as application/octet-stream instead of /zip? 3. Why does Firefox return getElementByTagName("body") as a collection whereas IE returns a single element 4. Why aren't browser makers forced onto an island with an assortment of sharp, messy weapons to duke it out and settle on a single standard. How hard can it be to decide on what "width" means? Or on how to insert some text into a page?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
3. Why does Firefox return getElementByTagName("body") as a collection whereas IE returns a single element
Pretty sure it's getElementsByTagName(), and always returns a collection... :~
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Ed Gadziemski wrote:
"Why can't they cure the common cold?"
That's an easy one, it's a virus.
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It's a multi-billion dollar industry. Who would want a cure for that?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
3. Why does Firefox return getElementByTagName("body") as a collection whereas IE returns a single element
Pretty sure it's getElementsByTagName(), and always returns a collection... :~
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You'd think so. I always thought so. But in the debugger, plural or not, it was not returning a collection. Which was actually completely my fault because I was asking for the tags before the document had actually rendered them but even so, when are browsers' implementation of javascript going to start doing what I want instead of what I tell it to do? Huh? HUH??
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It's a multi-billion dollar industry. Who would want a cure for that?
Think how rich the patent owner of that cure would be... AIDS won't be cured anytime soon either, for the same reason. No virus has ever been cured in human history.
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Think how rich the patent owner of that cure would be... AIDS won't be cured anytime soon either, for the same reason. No virus has ever been cured in human history.
Try code model generation tools at BoneSoft.com.
Did we mention it is impossible to kill a virus?
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Did we mention it is impossible to kill a virus?
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The UndefeatedSK Genius wrote:
Did we mention it is impossible to kill a virus?
That assumes that a virus is alive, not a universally accepted viewpoint.
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SK Genius wrote:
Did we mention it is impossible to kill a virus?
That assumes that a virus is alive, not a universally accepted viewpoint.
Nope, that assumes a virus is not alive in the first place, and therefor cannot be killed. A universally accepted viewpoint. ;P
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Nope, that assumes a virus is not alive in the first place, and therefor cannot be killed. A universally accepted viewpoint. ;P
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The UndefeatedThe way I understood it, a virus is alive and can be killed. As I understand it in fact air can kill HIV (which is why it's transmitted through fluids), but curing a human of a viral infection (without killing the host too) is another matter. But I'm by no means a virus expert.
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The way I understood it, a virus is alive and can be killed. As I understand it in fact air can kill HIV (which is why it's transmitted through fluids), but curing a human of a viral infection (without killing the host too) is another matter. But I'm by no means a virus expert.
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You can destroy a virus, you can't 'kill' it. All a virus is, is a protein case, with some DNA (or RNA) inside. It gets into cells, puts the new genetic code into the cell, and the cell starts making more viruses (is it viruses or viri? or both?). They're like God's little hackers. On a side note: Look how off topic this has become :laugh:
My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -
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You can destroy a virus, you can't 'kill' it. All a virus is, is a protein case, with some DNA (or RNA) inside. It gets into cells, puts the new genetic code into the cell, and the cell starts making more viruses (is it viruses or viri? or both?). They're like God's little hackers. On a side note: Look how off topic this has become :laugh:
My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -
The UndefeatedHmm. I assumed they were cells. Good to know.
SK Genius wrote:
Look how off topic this has become
Yeah I noticed that. My fault, my apologies.
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You'd think so. I always thought so. But in the debugger, plural or not, it was not returning a collection. Which was actually completely my fault because I was asking for the tags before the document had actually rendered them but even so, when are browsers' implementation of javascript going to start doing what I want instead of what I tell it to do? Huh? HUH??
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
when are browsers' implementation of javascript going to start doing what I want instead of what I tell it to do?
I hear there's a browser out there that supports using VBScript client-side... ;P
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Nope, that assumes a virus is not alive in the first place, and therefor cannot be killed. A universally accepted viewpoint. ;P
My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -
The UndefeatedI surrender to your superior logic.
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1. Why does Firefox refuse to be sensible with setting the width of a File upload control 2. Why does IE report Zip file uploads as application/octet-stream instead of /zip? 3. Why does Firefox return getElementByTagName("body") as a collection whereas IE returns a single element 4. Why aren't browser makers forced onto an island with an assortment of sharp, messy weapons to duke it out and settle on a single standard. How hard can it be to decide on what "width" means? Or on how to insert some text into a page?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
getElementByTagName("body") as a collection
Because Microsoft wouldn't do it.
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You can destroy a virus, you can't 'kill' it. All a virus is, is a protein case, with some DNA (or RNA) inside. It gets into cells, puts the new genetic code into the cell, and the cell starts making more viruses (is it viruses or viri? or both?). They're like God's little hackers. On a side note: Look how off topic this has become :laugh:
My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -
The UndefeatedSK Genius wrote:
They're like God's little hackers.
Wouldn't that imply they're alive?
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1. Why does Firefox refuse to be sensible with setting the width of a File upload control 2. Why does IE report Zip file uploads as application/octet-stream instead of /zip? 3. Why does Firefox return getElementByTagName("body") as a collection whereas IE returns a single element 4. Why aren't browser makers forced onto an island with an assortment of sharp, messy weapons to duke it out and settle on a single standard. How hard can it be to decide on what "width" means? Or on how to insert some text into a page?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Because getElementByTagName returns a collection in general? Because it actually renders more than one body element.
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You can destroy a virus, you can't 'kill' it. All a virus is, is a protein case, with some DNA (or RNA) inside. It gets into cells, puts the new genetic code into the cell, and the cell starts making more viruses (is it viruses or viri? or both?). They're like God's little hackers. On a side note: Look how off topic this has become :laugh:
My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -
The UndefeatedSK Genius wrote:
They're like God's little hackers.
I say it's the devil's work. :rolleyes:
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove and evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... yeah, makes perfect sense.