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A World of ThanksThis time of year, in this part of the world there is a holiday
celebration called
"
Thanksgiving
"
.
It
’
s a fun holiday, based as it is,
more on tradition than on any particular religion.
While it may well
have had its roots in a religious holiday, it is today more about
gathering family members together and spending a little time reflecting
of things we have to be thankful for.
Of course, one of those things is
(traditionally) too much to eat and drink!
However, in the spirit of
thankfulness, I like to spend a few moments with you at this reflecting
on some of the great things to have come into my life over the past few
years
—
at least into my professional life! (My personal life I
’
ll
share with my family later!)
The Internet tops the list, of course, because it is the means whereby
all of our lives have been transformed
–
not just our work lives, but,
especially in my case, most aspects of my life.
Communication is the
mechanism through which we can reach understanding and the Internet is
such an amazing communication medium that it has reach into every corner
of the world to help us all to learn to understand each other.
Thanks
for the Internet!
To every blogger out there
–
"
Thanks!
"
Also referred to as
"
civilian
reporters
"
, a name which I think is great, bloggers are entertaining,
informing, thought provoking and are responsible for some of the finest
reporting to come out of troubled parts of our Earth.
To all the engineers and manufacturers around the world who keep
creating these wonderful tools and toys I use all the time
–
thanks a
million
–
I hope you keep right on doing it, and if you get rich doing
so, that
’
s all right with me (just please don
’
t take too much money from
me!)
More than anything, though, I like to take a few moments at this time of
year to thank you, my loyal Goodies to Go Readers and all the HTML
Goodies fans out there for your support.
It is you who enable us to
keep this site and newsletter going, and for that I am most thankful.
Thanks for reading!
–
Vince Barnes
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I
’
m making a web page and for the menu I
’
m using a (menu.js) file to be
included into the page through JavaScript. However, this is not
working. I don
’
t know why because I
’
ve got it to work before. I
’
ve tested it
on geocities.com and also offline on my web browser.
(Another question, could the include file be in the form menu.txt or must it
be .js?)
Here
’
s the code:
—
—
—
-
menu.js
—
—
—
—
document.write(
"
<
.ol
>
<
.li
>
<
.a href=
"
i.intro.html
"
>
Introduction
<
./a
>
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Functions of the Nervous System
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Components of the Nervous System
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Comparison Between Humans and Other Organisms
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Diseases that Affect the Nervous System
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Interaction of the Nervous System with Other Body Systems
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Conclusion
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Bibliography
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Glossary
<
./li
>
<
./ol
>
<
.h2
>
Links According to Component
<
./h2
>
<
.ol
>
<
.li
>
Neurons
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Central Nervous System
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Peripheral NervousSystem
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Senses
<
./li
>
<
.ul
>
<
.li
>
Sight
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Hearing
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Smell
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Taste
<
./li
>
<
.li
>
Touch
<
./li
>
<
./ul
>
<
./ol
>
"
);
—
—
—
—
i.intro.html
—
—
—
—
<
.!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"
-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN
"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd
"
>
<
.html
>
<
.head
>
<
.meta name=
"
author
"
content=
"
Jeffrey Bridgman
"
>
<
.meta http-equiv=
"
content-type
"
content=
"
text/html;
charset=shift_jis
"
<
.meta http-equiv=
"
content-style-type
"
content=
"
text/css
"
<
.meta name=
"
robots
"
content=
"
none
"
<
.link
href=
"
bio.css
"
type=
"
text/css
"
rel=
"
stylesheet
"
<
.title
>
The Nervous
System
<
./title
<
./head
>
<
.body
>
<
.script language=
"
javascript
"
type=
"
text/javascript
"
src=
"
include/menu.js
"
>
<
./script
>
<
.p class=
"
bnav
"
>
&
lt; Home | Next
&
gt;
<
./p
>
<
./body
>
<
./html
>
A.I believe the problem is with the link you have in the document.write()
statement.
You cannot have double quotes within double quotes.
Change
those to single quotes and see if that works.
Like this:
<
.a href=
’
i.intro.html
’
>
Q.I was curious about shopping carts and wondering what type programming
was need to created these.
Shopping carts are written in different languages and use different
technologies. You server type will determine what you can use and cannot
use. I use Active Server Pages(ASP) and for that I need to host on a Windows
server. A UNIX server will support PERL and PHP. There are JavaScript carts
but I have never used them. The shopping cart features will tell you if it
updates the product amount.
I found a script that disallows the right clicking to
"
view
source
"
which is great.. however is there another code that disallows the ability to
click on the
"
Source
"
option under the View Toolbar?
A.There is no way to stop them from viewing the source using the
"
view
source
"
option.
My site uses 3 frames, heading, links and the third is the body, which is
the only thing that changes as you move through different parts of the
site.
I
’
m using css for fonts, colors and background images on the site. I
would like to use a watermark logo, but I do not want to show it in the
heading or links frames, only the body. Is there some way to override the
background image in the css file in my heading and links frame so it remains
as just a white background?
A.Put a class=
"
withbg
"
in the body tag of your BODY.
Put the background declaration in body.withbg {background-image
…
.}
When clicking on a selection, it opens the new page in a new window.
How
do I get the script to open the page in the same window?
A.If you remove the target=
"
_blank
"
in each link it will open the document
in the same page.
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It
’
s a
great place to get help from others who, just like you, are developing web
pages.
Many different topics appear in the forum, and a new one will appear
if you create it!
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’
s a sample of recent topics:
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Hackers Change Course[
November 22, 2005
]
A new SANS 2005 Top 20 list of Internet vulnerabilities
shows a shift in what attackers are going after. And it
’
s not just operating
systems anymore.
Read the article:
[
November 22, 2005
]
NetTV startup Brightcove gets a broad video distribution
deal with AOL, and some VC love.
Read the article:
[
November 22, 2005
]
Redmond modifies the license for its Office Open XML
file format and pushes for standards adoption.
Read the article:
[
November 22, 2005
]
Meanwhile, an ISV offers low-cost push e-mail for Palm
’
s
Treo.
Read the article:
[
November 21, 2005
]
Security firm published proof-of-concept code for a
six-month-old unpatched IE flaw.
Read the article:
[
November 22, 2005
]
SenSage and EMC partner to tap a new data storage
market: managing information about the security of information.
Read the article:
[
November 22, 2005
]
Ringtones are just the tip of the media download iceburg
in this GoFish alliance.
Read the article:
[
November 22, 2005
]
IBM Workplace Forms is the company
’
s stab at putting
electronic forms software onto customers
’
computers.
Read the article:
A White Hat Approach to Web
‘
Cloaking
’
[
November 22, 2005
]
Benign cloaking service from Dipsie aims to make Web
sites more visible to search engines.
Read the article:
Sony Sued Over DRM Rootkit
[
November 21, 2005
]
UPDATED: Sony BMG
’
s copy-protection software draws two
separate lawsuits.
Read the article:
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Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Site Navigation – Part 1This article is the first on a series of articles on ASP.NET 2.0
’
s site
navigation functionality. This first part of the series examines the basics
of site navigation, showing how to create a simple site map using the
default XML-based site map provider.
While ASP.NET has some built in tools to aid in debugging, classic ASP is
relatively lacking in that regard. This tip will show you an easy way to
check the values of your application
’
s variables and then stop execution
before you do any database writes or anything else you might not want to do
while testing.
This article is the second part of David Catherman
’
s series on using Visual
Studio .NET Wizards to create N-tiered applications. This time around David
looks at new version of .NET and Visual Studio .NET 2005 which offer several
enhancements that change the way database-centric applications are
developed.
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1963John F. Kennedy Assassinated
In one of the most infamous and subsequently controversial assassinations of
the twentieth century, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John
F. Kennedy, was fatally shot on this day in 1963 while riding in a Lincoln
convertible through the streets of Dallas, Texas.
At 12:30 p.m., as the car
passed the Texas School Book Depository Building, Lee Harvey Oswald fired
three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and
seriously injuring Texas Governor Connally. Half an hour later, Kennedy was
pronounced dead at Dallas Parkland Hospital.
On November 24, Oswald, who
had ties to the USSR and to Cuba, was being moved from the Dallas police HQ
to a more secure county jail, when he was shot dead with a single shot fired
by Jack Ruby, FKA Jacob Rubenstein.
Ruby, who plead innocent by reason of
insanity (he supposedly suffered from
"
psychomotor epilepsy
"
caused by grief
at Kennedy
’
s assassination, and so shot Ruby
"
unconsciously
"
) was found
guilty of
"
murder with malice
"
and sentenced to death.
Ruby was alleged to
have ties to organized crime.
Circumstances led to many conspiracy theories
surrounding the assassination.
In 1964 the Warren Commission report
concluded that
"
neither Oswald nor Ruby were part of a larger conspiracy,
either domestic or international, to assassinate President Kennedy
"
, but in
1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations reported that Kennedy was
"
probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy
"
, and that multiple
shooters and organized crime might have been involved.
The controversy
continues still today, as there are firm believers on both sides of the
discussion.
Today was also the day that in:
1718English pirate Edward
:Blackbeard
"
Teach died off the coast of Virginia;
1842Mount St.
Helens erupted;
1886The Victoria Street Cable Tram began operation
in Melbourne Australia;
1910Arthur Knight received a paten for steel
shafted golf clubs;
1916author Jack London died of kidney disease;
Maurice Ravel
’
s
"
Bolero
"
was first publicly performed (Paris);
a pump capable of calculating the quantity and price of fluid it
delivered was patented;
1935the flying boat
"
China Clipper
"
took off
from California with 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-pacific
airmail flight;
1963the Beatles released their second album,
"
With
The Beatles
"
, in the UK;
1963English author Aldous Huxley died;
English author C.S. Lewis died;
1967the BBC (unofficially)
banned the Beatles
’
song
"
I am The Walrus
"
;
1968the Beatles released
their only double album, nameless, but dubbed the
"
White Album
"
for its
plain white cover;
1975Juan Carlos was proclaimed King of Spain
(following the Nov. 20 death of dictator Francisco Franco, who had no idea
that Juan Carlos would reinstitute democracy);
1977regular Concorde
flights between Europe and NY began;
1989Conjunction of Venus, Mars,
Uranus, Neptune, Saturn
&
the Moon, and Eastern Airlines pilots and flight
attendants ended their strike, but most of them were not rehired;
1990US President George Bush (Sr.) visited troops in Saudi Arabia for the
Thanksgiving Holiday;
1990Margaret Thatcher announced her
resignation as British Prime Minister;
Born today were: in
1819English author George Elliot;
1888Edgar Rice Burroughs
’
fictional character Tarzan of the Apes;
1899actor and songwriter Hoagie Carmichael;
1904actor Roland Winters;
actress Lee Patrick;
1910actress Mary Jackson;
1913English composer Benjamin Britten;
1921comedian Rodney Dangerfield;
actor Robert Vaughn;
1935actor Michael Callan;
1939actor Allen Gerfield;
1940actor, comedian, animator (the American in
Monty Python) Terry Gilliam;
1943tennis star Billie Jean King;
actress Jamie Lee Curtis; 1961 actress Mariel Hemmingway;
1966English Nicholas Rowe;
1967Tennis star Boris Becker;
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