Brenda, because IE has its nasty tentacles embedded in the operating system, the program launches faster (and convinces people that it's faster), but once it's launched, it's slower. Opera is faster than either, on Windows. Other geekery here: [link]
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
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amych - Sep 10, 2005 11:56:18 am PDT #4461 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
brenda m - Sep 10, 2005 12:00:14 pm PDT #4462 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Nuh-uh. It's actually faster loading pages, etc. I may try out Opera at some point, though.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2005 12:02:29 pm PDT #4463 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Allyson -- You've got a bunch of t table tags without any corresponding t /table tags (I count seven). It's almost as though you're using the t table tags as paragraph breaks. Get rid of all of them! That would probably cause some browsers to create columns where you don't want them.
Allyson - Sep 10, 2005 12:26:00 pm PDT #4464 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Thanks so much, Jon!
I don't know what most tags do, at all. Got rid of 'em.
Now I gotta make the text not stretch to the edges. And add my email addie and make sure the title goes back to the front page.
And then I'm going to go throw up.
It's sort of sad that I've never gotten any better at this, given that coding up a simple page is the sort of knowledge people o' my generation tend to see as simple as dialing a phone.
Consuela - Sep 10, 2005 12:27:04 pm PDT #4465 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The best way to learn coding is to steal the code of pages you like. I stole most of my code from Maayan, who's a very clean designer. I'm not in any way good, but I've learned a bit.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2005 1:00:10 pm PDT #4466 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
No problemo, Allyson. By the way, without the table tags, you also want to get rid of the tr, td, /tr and /td tags. They're only used within tables.
Oh, I just noticed that you took out the word "table", but left in the rest of the tag. You need to get rid of the whole thing, i.e. the entire t BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="30" COLS="0" WIDTH="80%"
Allyson - Sep 10, 2005 1:05:20 pm PDT #4467 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
oooh, but how do I properly space between objects without cellpadding, jon?
DXMachina - Sep 10, 2005 2:02:52 pm PDT #4468 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
If there's no table, there are no cells, so no cell padding. One way to add spaces without using a table is to use . Each one equals one space. It'll be hard to line things up, though.
Another way is to create a one pixel clear gif image, and then insert the image wherever you need to space things. You can vary the size of the space by changing the width attribute (and/or height, too) in the image tag.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2005 3:29:42 pm PDT #4469 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Just use one big table around the whole thing.
Zenkitty - Sep 10, 2005 5:14:19 pm PDT #4470 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Yet again, I come to the Buffistas, because I'm exhausted trying to even understand the instrucitons I've found on the internets.
I'm running BitTorrent. It works. But the website lists people I can't connect to, who don't even show up on my peers list. For instance, in my peers list, there's one peer with 100% of the thing I want, and I can't connect to him. (I want to kill him. He's just sitting there, hoarding it.) What is the reason for this? I've disabled my Windows firewall entirely, which I know is a bad idea, and apparently I'm not on a router, just a cable modem, so I shouldn't have to forward any goddam ports or whatever, but I can't figure out what I'm supposed to do to actually connect to the peers who are clearly there.
Can anyone clue me in to the inscrutable secret here? Seems I don't deal with frustration well.