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Jessica - Aug 19, 2010 5:44:35 pm PDT #14669 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

A Mac Mini running Boxee could do all that, but I think it only comes with HDMI out, so you'd need an adapter.

ION, the other buyer fell through and I am now the proud 2nd owner of a used 1st-gen Kindle. If I fall totally in love with it I'll probably try to resell this one and put the proceeds towards one of the shiny new graphite ones.

tommyrot - Aug 20, 2010 2:09:58 pm PDT #14670 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So has anyone developed css for b.org for use on a phone running the opera mobile browser?

Toddson - Aug 21, 2010 7:24:45 am PDT #14671 of 25501

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

So I went and bought a laptop and signed up for the Verizon broadband wireless ... and I get almost no signal at home. I'm currently in Borders - where it took me 45 @!#%@!!!! minutes to get on their free wifi. This isn't working out quite like I hoped ....

tommyrot - Aug 23, 2010 7:26:48 am PDT #14672 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So... anyone know anything about turning on/off horizontal word wrap in an HTML textarea?

So far, I've found if I add

textarea { white-space: pre; }

to the page's stylesheet, then the horizontal word wrap gets turned off. But then it's impossible to enter more than one line (i.e. a carriage return does not produce a new line when horizontal word wrap is turned off.

So:

How do I turn horizontal word wrap off yet allow the user to use a carriage return to produce a new line?
If I get that to work, how do I use Javascript to turn the horizontal word wrap on and off?
Why does the above code work in a stylesheet but if I do the same thing in the textarea tag like so:

<textarea name='txtNote2' rows='14' cols='93' white-space: pre;>

it doesn't work?

Tom Scola - Aug 23, 2010 7:31:16 am PDT #14673 of 25501

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

you have to do:

<textarea name='txtNote2' rows='14' cols='93' style='white-space: pre;'>

tommyrot - Aug 23, 2010 7:37:06 am PDT #14674 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

That works! Thanks Tom. Any idea on how to allow the user to force new lines when wordwrap is off?

Jon B. - Aug 23, 2010 8:05:15 am PDT #14675 of 25501

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I'm not sure of exactly what you want, tommyrot, but this page might help: [link]

Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 23, 2010 8:10:57 am PDT #14676 of 25501

"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

I am in desperate need of a new laptop. Several years of heavy use and occasional dropping on the floor are taking its toll. This one has been running quite slowly, and I don't know whether that would be the RAM or the speed of the processor. Any easy way I can find out what's responsible for the sluggishness?

Dana - Aug 23, 2010 8:14:21 am PDT #14677 of 25501

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Do you periodically run a virus checker and a malware checker?

Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 23, 2010 8:14:53 am PDT #14678 of 25501

"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Yep, both of those.

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