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Aaaah. Finally, I get a chance to brag! (sigh)..Penium 1 200MHz MMX32MB RamMother Board: IntelHDD: 20GBVGA: 1MB + TV TunerSound: OPTi 16Monitor: Acer 34eL - 14"NIC: RealTekFloppy and Regular CD-ROMHey, I RULE!... sniff.

Link works fine, so I'm not sure where this problem lies, unless it's been fixed, although I looked at this when it was first posted and the link worked fine then too. (have to make sure no nasty pictures are linked to). http://photobucket.com/albums/v336/golgothurteen/Goku.jpg Cheers, MC

Hey Shadow X,Do not ignore HTML, it's the markup language for the web, PHP is an extension onto HTML that gives it dynamics, it's not a replacement it's an addon.W3 Schools, also has a tutorial on PHP, so you should look at their site, but do learn HTML first before trying PHP.Cheers,MC

The part you think selfish, is not at all, I'm not saying it's not a bad mistake because it's covering our own *bottom*, but unless designers learn to clean their code, make sure it works, go further than just viewing it in a browser then they've done enough, having the browser correct our mistake (designer/developer and not end user) might make us think our site works fine, however since there is no standard method for how browsers can handle errors, we will get totally different results across browsers, that is why it is better to not have errors than to mask them. W3C also recommended how errors should have been handled, yet it never defined how conforming users agents handled general error conditions. The key line I like to point out would be: We also recommend that user agents provide support for notifying the user of such errors. However we were also told not to rely on this and I also agree. Have you ever had a user agent point out errors in your HTML 4.01 documents? On Firefox I can have this if I install the Tidy Extension. On Amaya browser, I can not get into a site that doesn't conform to it's detected DTD without fixing those problems, I can get into some sites that have minor errors, but I've got Tidy in the bottom corner of it notifying me of problems with the page. If I want to put that into a story: Say we're at an Ice Cream Parlour, we know they do ice cream but we want to know if they do milkshakes. If it's not pointed out to us then obviously we're going to ask them. If we looked at this as a web browser, we know they render web pages for us. If it encounters an error, are we to ask the browser if such an error exists? The point being, if it's not pointed out, then how do we know it even exists? All the ice cream parlour needed, instead of being asked was a sign advertising milkshakes. All a browser needed us to do was inform us of the error, now this does not have to be given to us in a message box but if you use the Tidy extension, that's a nice way of knowing there's problems. As with the ice cream parlour needing a sign, it may have had one, yet we found it difficult to find. Maybe this is the case with many browsers? I've never really looked indepth to that extent. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html%23h-B.1 So the thing is, since there was no means to tell them how to correct HTML or problems encountered, XML/XHTML was made different, they told them how to handle these errors and there was no excuse to not handle it their way, although I know a few browsers who still insist on fixing those errors and blatantly ignoring W3C's recommendation. Unfortunately, W3C is not a Standards Authority, the attitude towards them could be "He's not my father, he can't tell me what to do" and that is true. They can't, nothing they've said is a Standard, they are only recommendations and some people can not put in the effort to learn it, infact it's a huge learning curve and I've still got lots more to learn from it, but if I can share what I know already and make it easier on those who are still learning then that is fine. As for IE, they don't support applications/xhtml+xml, application/xml or text/xml and should not be compared with their Office Suite. I'm not sure how MS developer's work, but I think they each have their own projects, and only offer little input for different projects. This thread however was to support W3C and what they asked for, XHTML 1.1 and mime-type: application/xhtml+xml this however is not what they're getting. This is my attempt to point out something that does exist but is not made obvious, similar ice cream story. You must realise that if mime-type is application/xhtml+xml, it's formatted differently (mime-types lets the User Agent/Programs etc, know what type of content they can expect so that the program can use appropriate means to handle the data), it's no longer using the HTML renderer but the XML Parser, there's a huge difference in handling, but almost similar output if keeping to traditional tags. Using HTML to handle XHTML is incorrect, there are huge differences in the two Mark Up language that being XHTML 1.0 the compatibility, and XHTML 1.1 being the move away from depreciated and obsolete elements. If I were to write solely in XHTML with my own tags and tried to use text/html to display it, I'm bound to have problems with weird displays, since HTML had no means of notifying errors and when encounter, did it's own thing. We don't want it trying to even attempt XHTML if it doesn't support it, so I have to detect every browser/user agent and correct it, by making sure that I send XHTML to those browsers who support it, and another page in plain HTML to those who don't. I should also add that this slow down in the major browser market is a bad thing for us, the standards haven't altered dramastically that it would be a lot of work for the developer, the standards have been released for over 2 years (that's long enough as it is), but what would the point be in learning these standards if we must wait 4-8 years before we can fully make use of them? In the business world, they are moving to handheld devices yet I feel I'm going back to history where I must make certain browsers can handle things, e.g. we had to detect if they could use javascript, we had to detect flash, etc I thought the times for detecting what people used were over, but this is not the case. I remember writing sites to detect browsers, and displaying them pages that would render correctly with them, then after doing so was wasted when browsers started standardising themselves, I'm glad the browser war is over (IE did not win that war if you wanted to know who won, they claimed the market afterwards with integration), but the war against the browsers isn't over. I spend more time on finding out what browsers know and don't know than producing my site. I just can't rely on any browser anymore. I could however go back to HTML and not make use of newer technology, but then when the change does happen, I'm further behind. By the time they do make that change, 4 years later or so, something else would have already replaced it. IE should get out of the dark, we need them to make the moves else we might have "sites optimised for all except IE", "this site is best viewed without IE", sites being built, something I was hoping not to see arise again. Cheers, MC

-->MC: Regardless of the fact that there are things on which I agree with you, and things on which I don't, I still can't grasp the point of your point. Are you trying to say we should be more active in enforcing Browser Makers (User Agent Makers, in W3C lingo) to adhere to the standards? I can see you talked about many things in your post, but still I don't understand how the subject "Xhtml Is Not Suppose To Be Text/html" is related to them. Anyway, I've actually been too busy to keep up with the IE7 pre-release info, so I first learnt that IE7 is not planning to incorporate the XHTML MIME type from your post. Are you sure about this? I'm going to have to see how Microsoft explains this. It's too weird, considering their Office package has been supporting it for quite a long while now. One thing you said struck me as rather selfish (sorry ). It seems to me that you think User Agents make a big mistake when they display a badly-coded source. Well, of course this makes the lives of Web designers that much harder, but in most conditions, it's a pretty good thing for the page viewers. I do agree with you, though, that the User Agents should alert the viewers more conciously about the errors; at least so that technically-oriented viewers know if they're missing something important. ----- Also, I think it's wrong for us to think of XHTML as an extension of HTML. Yes, they share the same parent (SGML), and they have loads of tags in common, but still, I think XHTML should be viewed as an independent language, if one is to understand and make the best of it. I think our role - as people who think W3C recommendations are important - is to keep talking to User Agent Makers. If they see enough demand, they'll respond. Not out of courtest, but it'll be their they'll try to protect, then.

I think the percentage values are way off being correct.How I would rank importance:ContentStructure/SemanticsDesignThe updating speaks for itself and shares a different situation for a good website.Google's front page is actually a bad site but it's built for a specific purpose and that was simplistic and straight to the point of what it wants and greater support for many old browsers, it however lacks in content and structure or semantics.However it does not need much in content as it is laid out in a suitable way and it's job is for gather content, but it is not structured in a suitable way or how to put it, in a more understanding, easy navigational way.You should look at it again. Notice the placement of every object you see on the page. You are actually expected to know how to use google, in which case most people do, but it's a confusing layout none the less if you look over it. The only evidence that says its to search the web is it's button and the check box.Google expects too much from it's users, it thinks you do know how to use google, they could have added more content, made navigation easier. I think their reason was to make it cleaner and load faster.Cheers,MC

I am quite disappointed in IE's development as with keeping up but still if they feel they need to fully work on current things that they have already attempted to resolve and perfect then that is a good thing, but development should have never got so messy and only the developer would know that it's his fault and not MS's. This isn't to bad mouth IE, but it's so sad to know that even after 5 years or more of IE6, IE7 has no intention of supporting XHTML and I don't think I can wait for IE8 if development takes such a long time. They should also realise that HTML will become obsolete but it would be IE who would be successful in making that happen rather than Web Designers/Developers. So for this thread, XHTML is not just about changing tags and passing the W3 Validator, in fact the validator has it's limits and we know what limits it has, and we can rectify the situation. I'm talking about XHTML 1.1, although this does apply to XHTML 1.0 Strict and most definitely would apply to XHTML 2.0 yet this is still in draft. When designing your site, you should make sure you pass the validator, http://validator.w3.org/ (you should check most those check boxes for this test). But that's not all, to be 100% compliant the mime-type that an XHTML document must pass is application/xhtml+xml , in XHTML 1.0 they let it slip by for text/html but only if compatibility was the issue, however you should if you can send application/xhtml+xml to User Agents who can parse XML and as a backup send application/xml or text/xml or as a last and final backup text/html but eventually it will need to be resolved. I hate trying to fight for standards against people who believe they follow standards, I don't know how many web developers/designers have read nearly every document in W3C, I know I haven't read everyone, but I've read most of them related to HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, XSL/XSLT and even this effort I have taken to has already surpassed most web designer/developers, so I rather not fight and just let people know that it's how the standards were set. If you understand this, then you'd probably want to know the advantage of XHTML 1.1 application/xhtml+xml. I have to say the biggest advantage is "well-formed", it's forced upon you, you make one mistake, it's not going to show your site, it will however show you the XML parser error and will not give you an excuse for making mistakes. This is what I consider the greatest debugging method I have when writing sites, as validators can not give this much power in validating. Other advantages are you can make your own tags, elements, etc, you are not stuck in using HTML tags no more, you can make tags, styled to how you want, which means you can make better use of CSS if you wanted to as you could create tags for each and every instance, e.g. replacing <p class="copyright">Copyright © 2005.</p> with something that has better meaning for it. e.g. <copyright>Copyright © 2005</copyright> There are many more advantages, but so much to explain. The main point is we're using data and making the data more appropriate and thus far more effective, especially for Search Engines and searches made. The biggest disadvantage, the most used browser under windows does not support it. I heard though that same browser on Mac does, is that strange or what? What we are forced to do with current situations is discover which browsers support it and work with them, we also need to know of other User Agents who definitely support it and work with them, there's so much of making workarounds for it, that I'm quite sick in the slow progress that has been taken to standards, these standards have been out for years now. Thanks to Mozilla and Opera and the other browsers (Camino, KHTML, etc) who better support standards and know the importance of keeping up to date. As for sending application/xhtml+xml We have many methods, but we should not need workarounds, because I find I have to even work on the workaround to perfect it even more so here's the simplistics of getting it working inside PHP. Headers must be sent first, so make it appear at the top/start of your page. <?php if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'])){$http_accept = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'];if(stristr($http_accept, 'application/xhtml+xml'))$mime_type = 'application/xhtml+xml';elseif(stristr($http_accept, 'application/xml'))$mime_type = 'application/xml';elseif(strstr($http_accept, 'text/xml'))$mime_type = 'text/xml';}else$mime_type = 'text/html';header('Content-Type: ' . $mime_type);?> This is only the basics of it, there's more since validators/search engines etc don't use HTTP_ACCEPT which means we must work on the HTTP_USER_AGENT instead which means sifting through hundreds and that is why I'm sick of not being able to just send application/xhtml+xml without blocking anyone from using it, even though I do feel like blocking IE just cause I can but that's not fair on my viewers. I may build some test sites for those who want to test their browsers, it would be nice to get some feedback so I might also allow for comments to be made on that site. I will be collecting some information from the use of it however, nothing other than things that will help me better improve on supporting all browsers and then helping you share my results and fixes for it. I'll get back to this when I've completed that part of the site. I will show you plain html files (written in XHTML) that pass W3C, as well as errored html pages (won't validate at W3C) that still display in the browser when they shouldn't (this is because browsers love to fix your problems instead of telling you there's a problem), in xhtml it will be same, but this time instead of the browser fixing your problem, it will tell you! That way you will be a better developer/designer knowing that if you met "well-formed" documents then no doubt you have made the effort to be error free. Give me time as I'm still trying to see if I can edge on the developer for IE to try for supporting this mime-type yet it seems there's too much to "hack" that it's best to not touch it when it's near releasing. I understand that people don't want a messy hack, well if they paid attention, he already messed up (if you think this is just a lie, I can point you to sources of him admitting it) and that's why IE requires a rewrite in that department, so messy hack or not, it was already a mess. There will no doubt be a patch to work with this, I even considered writing one myself, but I felt unofficial patches and the fact that it infringes on something is not worth it, lets just get them to fix the problem themselves. Also to do this patch, it's not an easy task, so don't think I'm making it sound easy, it is indeed a lot of work. So hopefully this will make you realise that standards are strict as hell, but well worth it. http://www.w3.org/ - The only site that has it all. Although you should be quite technical as it's how they speak there and not for those who need basics, basics are left up to us to help you will fully grasp it and we will teach you correctly, or as correct as we understand those documents at W3C. I do have to say though, it's due to us not following W3C as fully as we can that we messed up in the designing/developing side of things. Cheers, MC

I too got same message.The attachment is a virus and you can ignore it.

Every time I boot up my computer I get a blue screeen error that say the following number "0x0000007F" I have heard it has something to do with the number of Kernel space in my computer. My computer is about a year old and runs on XP proffesional. I am able to use safe mode but i cannot connect to the internet. i dont know wat to do can anybody help me?

Intel Celeron M 1.3GHz Processor128MB RAM40Gb Hard Drive 52x CD BurnerWindows XP 17" phillips Sound CardBluetoothModemThats it.. plus scanner and printer...

what do u mean By Copy.... If u mean that I copied it from Net or from somewhere else then my answer is "no" I was reading the book of "J2EE" and I found it there,, *the book not net* and posted it here... bcoz i thought wud be informative, and indirectly i think whcih we post abt programing and other stuff are basically the knowledge whcih we got from books,,, and i dont think i did wrong.. if i did wrong. then tell me ,... and admins will decide it ,,,,

The game was okay at first, it had it's moments. Later on it got pretty boring for me though. I stopped playing and I didn't mention the game to any of my friends...they play whatever games I play, and they don't like something like this compared to other games like this. Oh well, another I believe Korean game down the drain for me. I still recommend it to others who are bored though.

lol ... thats funnny.... they must have alot of spare time to do all this ... no doubt its a good try lol

ye,,, but can u tell me if we want to make money for adds... i eman u'll get per clik u'r comission.. is there any specific requirment for this..like if I want to add there banners wht should I do.. and can any one tell whts the best site for this ... its just for info

hei Guys .. sry am little late in making my introduction..my real name is Ahsan Aslamam the old user of Xisto but i was inactive .. I was the user when there was no credit system...So... anything mroe?

i found this awesome search engine called Metacrawler it produces results that yahoo and google doesnt you should try it if you cant find something on google or yahoo. it has all the same search criteria as yahoo. the link for it is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. its a useful tool i realy recomend it. it also has a toolbar just like the others. i am always looking for useful se if you know of any others please post and let me know. also if you know of any problems with metacrawler than let me know.

Ahh! thanks for the log on tip it really helped me but i was wondering if you could help me with a problem i have been having? I keep getting a blue screen when i boot up and it states that an error has occured and the number is "0x0000007F". someone has told me it has to do with the number of kernel space but i have no clue wat that means. you seem to be a smart guy can u help me? I have no idea wat to do i have run a system diagnostic and the hardrive and cd drives both passed so this guys said it has to be with the softwareor something.

I just recently started using dreamweaver and i need to know some information. Well for one thing i want to know how u put a password on a certain page to help keep the pages private and second u want to know how i can make a messageboard that allows visitors to write comments that will be posted on the website. I know these questions are kind of hard to answer that is why i am in need of real knowledgable person to inform me. If at all possible could you email me because i think that would be alot easier. -----Not a tutorial, therefore does not belong in the tutorials section-----szupie

if U want to make a forum or just want to put shoutbox in u'r site.,. make it clear if u want the forum which u want that u'r friend discuss evrything.. then i wud suggest IPB. there are also other forum like phpbb etc .. u cam search it from Google. check this out http://www.authpro.com/ it'll put paswd on u'r desired pages. and members can also registre from u'r site and other stuff. it'll fulfill u'r requirement and its realy easy to figure it out,, there are several other way to protect u'r site but as u r beginer so it wud be better for u to check the link and try to figure it out. in case u dont get the usage contact me i'll try to help u more

Agreed.

Yes that does seem kind of slow for the stuff you got in your computer but for an average computer it seems fine. There are many factors that influence the time.1. How Old is your computer?2. How Much memory is used?3. How Much Memory is left?4. How Many Programs do you have installed?There are also other factors that affect the timing and they vary for each computer.

Personally i think that aside from the graphics, Halo one was better than Halo 2. The explosions of the grenades and rocket launchers were more widespread making a more realistic explosion and also allowing more people to be killed at the same time. Also in simgel player on Halo 2 many of the missions were the same thing only in different locations. But if there is one thing that blows away Halo one besides the grahics it is the weapons. i truly love the weapons from halo 2 they are so awesome, especially the SMG which sounds like the pitter patter of rain when you fire.

i need some help with my myspace layout because i dont know how to put a video on my profile and i need to know a good editor to use . Also if you know of any good websites with free layouts then feel free to email me with the link. Also i do like the new features myspace has recently added like the high school page because it allows me to find my friends easier. Also i need animations too!

I am also in need of some information. I have recently built a website and i want to know how to create a messageboard where visitors can make comments and i also want to set a password on some of my pages so only some of my friends can access these pages.How would i go about doing this? Do i need some kind of software or do i need to pay in order to recive this kind of thing? I am really in a bind because if i cant figure this out , then i am really mad because i built the website around these features.

With his blue spikes and his lightning fast agility how can anyone day that Sonic the Hedgehog isn't the best Video Game Charater around it was amazing when he first came out in the late 80's or so and there are still some decent games with him in it like sonic heroes. In my opinion he is the greatest character of all time because his powers are so simple yet practical and still used in modern video games. i think the the sonic the hedgeohog series has set a standard on which other games may seek to emulate.