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Seems odd too.. have not noticed that recently...

You could try just setting the width of the container it is in and then setting the width of each thing that goes into the grid space to be 100% of that. Might help keep things more consistent.

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Problem is in DOCTYPE, I replaced DOCTYPE in the source of the link provided by you with the following :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

and it makes "select" elements of same width as the input element.

Dear All,
I have to displayed Indian rupee symbol in my crystal report. i have style sheet which convert "Rs." and ~ to Indian rupee.
currently I am displaying in Rs.. how to incorporate javascript or stylesheet in crystal report.
Pl help you would appreciated.

Regards,
Pankaj

You need the font which has the Indian rupees symbol.

Here you go dude.

How To Download And Use The New Indian Rupee Symbol[^]

Font with Indian Rupee Symbol - Download and Use Free[^]

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The team I am part of has been developing data visualization tools for desktop environment for more than a couple of decades now and has been extremely successful with it. Now we are planning to move into the web world.

The graphics module uses many statistical routines, which we plan to expose as a web service owing to several requests from potential clients. That means the graphics engine would also use the very same web services.

Keeping all these in mind along with how interactive the tools must be, I thought Silverlight would be the best choice. Also because we need the tools to run on Apple and Linux distros, like desktop versions, it seems attractive to code just once.

However, googling some phrases like "is silverlight dead" etc makes me wonder if it is going to be worthy to invest in. Yet, I can't see any other solution.

What do you recommend?

FYI, all our tools are in C++ and using Silverlight would mean rewriting in C# but that's acceptable.

Signature is a waste of time. I'll have one when I've got enough time to create. Well, I had enough a few seconds back.

Silverlight is not dead. The rumors are generally from disgruntled and/or uninformed people. IMO Silverlight is an excellent platform for your requirements. Something else to consider is JavaScript and the rise of HTML5. There is a considerable amount that can be done with JavaScript without the need to have Plugins such as Silverlight. HTML5 is gaining more acceptance and availability in browser support also.

I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

I would take a look at the HTML5 canvas tag.

Chris J
www.redash.org

I have a menu on a webpage that I'm starting to develop. When the user hovers over certain menu items it pops up a horizontal menu/image. The popup is an image split via Map Area tags. The reason being is if the user clicks on the top of the image they get redirected to one link, if they click the bottom of the image they go to a different link.

My problem occurs when the user is in the popup menu and moves the cursor from Map area to Map area. The popup menu disapears when you go inbetween them Confused | :confused:

I have the meta code up and running if someone wants to take a look at it here[^] I commented the code so its easier to understand.

Heres a breakdown of the flow of code:

Someone hovers over the image:

<tr>      <td><a href="#" onMouseOver="display_menu(this,'menuLocations',-40,210,'menuMenu',0)"><img src="images/TabLocations.jpg" alt="Locations" name="Locations" width="235" height="42" border="0"></a></td>    </tr>

Which calls this JScript Sub upon onMouseOver. The Sub displays a popup image

function display_menu(parent,named,xOffset,yOffset,HideMe,HideMe2)
{				//(parent==Parent Element to popup near
				//named==the named div class popup to displyay.  
				//xOffset & yOffset == pixel offset so the menu dosent popup ontop of the parent menu. 
				//HideMe & HideMe2 == close this menu-----Used to close the other popup menus when mouse is going from parent menu to parent menu


	//get the named menu
	var menu_element = document.getElementById(named);
	//override the 'display:none;' style attribute
	menu_element.style.display = "";
	//get the placement of the element that invoked the menu...
	var placement = findPos(parent);
	//...and put the menu there
	menu_element.style.top = (placement[1] + xOffset ) +"px";
	menu_element.style.left = (placement[0] + yOffset) +"px";

Above JScript displays this Div popup:

<div class="popup" id="menuLocations" style="display:none;">
  <table width="161" height="68" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="Table_300">
		<tr><td><a href="#" onMouseOut="hide_menu('menuLocations')"><IMG SRC="images/TabKuCalMap.jpg" ALT="" BORDER=0 WIDTH=161 HEIGHT=68 USEMAP="#mapHome"></a></td></tr>   
    </table>
</div>

Which is split via this Map Area:

<MAP NAME="mapHome">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,161,34" alt="Ku_Home" href="Ku_Home.html" />
<area shape="rect" coords="0,34,68,161" alt="Cal_Home" href="Cal_Home.html" />
</MAP>

When the user is hovering in one Area and moves to the other Area the popup closes. . .
Does anyone know what I can do to debug this?

I mean,the url sent back from server should be

http://localhost/cgi_csharp?TestVariable=123

But,my program shows

http://localhost/cgi_csharp.com?TestVariable=123

The question is,how should I hide the extension name ".com" of my cgi application under IIS? Confused | :confused:

maybe this will help.... http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=iis+hide+extensions&cp=19&pf=p&sclient=psy&aq=0v&aqi=&aql=&oq=iis+hide+extensions&pbx=1&fp=cd4bd38bf506aaa7[^]

Chris J
www.redash.org

I have some table gaps that I can't get rid of and it's driving me insane. Can someone shed some light on why this is happening?

I've simplified my code to just a boarder and nothing else:

<table width="1160" height="600" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="Table_blah">
<tr><td rowspan ="1" colspan="15"><img src="images/HorSeparator.jpg" width="1160" height="16" alt=""></td></tr>
<tr><td rowspan="14"><img src="images/VertSeparator.jpg" alt="" width="11" height="584"></td></tr>
</table>

SOLVED:
Turns out the gap was caused by my opening tags:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

Does anyone know how they can cause table gaps Confused | :confused:

modified on Sunday, January 30, 2011 9:32 PM

I took your markup, made a couple of images to match yours and took a look. I don't see any gaps. Perhaps you have a style sheet that's affecting things?

If that's not the case, maybe you could describe what you're seeing - that may help diagnose the problem.

Cheers,
Drew.

Thanks for the reply My style sheet is very simple, I doubt that is affecting it, but I'll look into it.

Here's a snapshot of Explorers' and Chromes' rendering of my table:
http://tinypic.com/r/2guei2s/7[^]

It dosent look like much but that 3 pixle gap on the left really messes things up.

Thanks for the input Drew. If you didnt suggest that the problem could be outside of the table I wouldn't of figured out that the problem was caused by my opening tags

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en">

modified on Sunday, January 30, 2011 10:46 PM

Glad I could help!

Cheers,
Drew.

I am developing a web site that is going to be heavy in custom content and is very database driven. I want all the features (and some smartphone specific features) of the web site available to hand held devices. Now I have been absent from the programing scene for many years now. Ok So my question is what would be the best language to develop everything in. can I do it all in php and ajax or should I use c# and asp.net so I can use C# to develop the handheld apps. I know it's a loaded question but I really am at a loss on witch would be best and why.

There is no correct answer to a which language is best question. There are far too many variables. What language are you most comfortable with? Who will maintain the code in the future? What does the host support? Are there features one language supports and the other does not? Plus many, many more.

A database driven content management web application with mobile support describes what SharePoint is. There are also other pre-built packages and frameworks to do this so the question may be not which language to use but rather is it more economical to use one of these packages (don't forgot to factor in maintenance and support) or write it yourself.

I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

Mark is correct, its all a matter of what your good working with and the desire to work with a framework or roll your own. If you want to use a framework there are a ton of CMS systems out there, I would just google for free ones to start a search and check for a strong and friendly user base to help you with any questions you may have. Also look at how much bloat will be added that you may not want.

Just my 2 cents

Chris J
www.redash.org

I believe you meant to replay to the OP and not me.

I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

I agree with Mark that there is no single language that would be the best fit for this. In one part you say that you the website and some features available for hand held devices and then later say to use C# to make the handheld apps. You can made a website that will detect that it is a mobile device that it is being shown on and use different templates to access the data in a way that is optimized for mobile. I know quite a few websites that do that. Now if you want to do some mobile apps, that would be fine as well, but you would probably not be using C# on all of them. You could if you used MonoTouch for .NET on iPhone and MonoDroid on Android and Silverlight on WP7. But then it is still 3 separate apps. Configuring a website to show differently for a mobile device might be easier.

Even using something like html5 is not going to help you for everything, because the standard is not set, so every browser has different interpretations of it, and WP7 does not have it at all yet. I am not sure if Blackberry does or not.

For me, I always say to develop a website with what you are comfortable with (or want to learn), and that could be ASP.NET, RoR, html5, php, etc. You will have to test alot of mobile devices no matter what you pick, so be prepared for that.

Steve Maier

Hello

I am working on a website that the main page is "index.html" which has the following code.

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=index.php">
    </head>
</html>

The main website runs off of "index.php"

Is there any advantage in doing this?

Can you not run php scripts from within a html document?

Any thoughts as to why?

Thank you in advance

you can run php in an html document, if the web server is configured to recognise that an htm, or html document is to be parsed by php.

The example you give is odd and I wonder why you would do that. It would be simpler to just have an index.php and configure your server to load a php page directly.

Chris J
www.redash.org

We are in need of a markup/commentary tool that will allow users to markup a certain area of an asset (pdf, image, etc) and comment on it. Is anyone aware of other products like ConceptShare that provide such features?

Hello,

I have a simple menu bar that many webpages display, I wanted to put the code in a separate html file so that it was easier to maintain, as apposed to modifing ten or more files when a change is made.

<ul>
    <li id="menuHome"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
    <li id="menuResults"><a href="results.htm">Results</a></li>
    <li id="menuEvents"><a href="events.htm">Events</a></li>
</ul>

from html documents it is included by

<!--#include virtual="MenuBlock.html"-->

from php documents it is included by

<?php include "MenuBlock.html";?>

I want to know who is including this file so that I can adjust the CSS properties to reflect that the proper menu item is selected.

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write(document.referrer);
</script>

I had thought that the above would work, but the "calling document" is not the actual referrer.

I have JavaScript to modify the looks of the menu based on the menu id tags.

How can I tell which page is including this, or am I going totally in the wrong direction. (New to webpages)

Thank you in advance.

the document.referer is the previous web url that the browser was sitting at.

not sure how to do what you want without using javascript.

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

Thank you,

How would you tackle this using JavaScript?