rovertos

OK, let me put things in the right perspective... Some of you say that video games may improve some of your skills (like eye to hand coordination or your reflexes or whatever) and some of you say that some games are indeed a waste of time but some others are not. I can accept there is some truth in these opinions. But ask yourself this question... Is there any (legal) human activity you couldn't justify if you really wanted to? ***You can omit the word "legal" in the above sentence if you like*** My point is, you like playing video games and because you do, you try to justify this. In the process of doing so, you cross out all other things you could be doing with your free time until you are left with a false dilemma like "OK, should I watch this dumb TV Show or should I play Halo 2 instead?" This is how the human mind works. Every time, it tries to avoid strain and in doing so, it makes up excuses to justify this. When you're sitting comfortably in your sofa at home, there is indeed some mental strain involved in picking up a book that might teach you something, or calling a friend on the phone that you haven't spoken a long time to. This is why your mind blocks out these options or makes up an easy excuse like "oh well, why don't he/she calls me..." And this is how you end up spending the whole evening in front of your TV while your brain numbs out like a housewife on a lazy Sunday afternoon...

No, I don't think I'm being prejudiced towards video games. Prejudice means "An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts". I do have knowledge of the facts, since I have been playing games myself and consequently - not beforehand - formed the opinion that playing video games is a waste of time indeed.

I noticed many people say that, they say it's OK to play games very late in the night because there is nothing that needs to be done then... Well, what about the following morning lads? If you wake up at 15:00 there's not much you can do with the rest of your day, is there?

You really need to work on your debating skills son...

I think this forum is OK but the least I can say is that you can't easily get this particular piece of information: "What do I need to do to have Java enabled for my domain?" I must have posted at least five relevant questions before I was finally told that I need to ask the admin for that... So I did... I'm still waiting for an answer...

Be careful with those iframes... I know Netscape didn't support them and I think Firefox doesn't support them now. <iframe> is IE proprietary, you'd better stick with the standards...

(!)... I suggest you read some Tom Robbins Bexa and you do it fast!

To have JSP support enabled for your domain you have to ask admin. I'm still waiting for a reply...

If you want to buy a book on HTML, the best one is definitely "HTML in a nutshell" by O'Reilly. This one is to learn HTML, there is an even better one which is used as a reference book: "Dynamic HTML. The Definitive Reference". I am a web professional, I have used a lot of programming books over the years to help me through the hard times and I can tell you, the Definitive Reference on HTML is definitely the one I have used the most...

...As for the hover functionality, what you have to do is dynamically change the src of the image onMouseOver and then restore it onMouseOut.E.g.<img src="whatever..." id="myImage" onMouseOver="java script:hover('in')" onMouseOut="java script:hover('out')">.........<script>function hover(String s){if (s == "in"){document.myImage.src="activeImage...";} else if (s == "out"){document.myImage.src="normalImage...";}}</script>

Actually, you could just write something like: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ... http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Applets need to import netscape.javascript.* package to make calls to JavaScript. The typical form for an Applet to JavaScript call is JSObject win = JSObject.getWindow(this); String[] args = {formTextField.getText()}; Object stringObject = win.call("setFormTextEntry", args);Where setFormTextEntry is the name of a JavaScript method in the web page and args represents the parameter list for the setFormTextEntry function.

Actually, there is an "all-in-one" installer for Apache/MySQL/PHP you can download. It is called PHPTriad. Look it up on google.