Re: Switch() Statement Not Working

Sean Inglis wrote:

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:20:40 +0100, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
me wrote:
Others have commented on a few of the misinterpretations in the code.
All logical guesses, but not close enough :)
You are talking nonsense.

Perhaps I should clear something up right off the bat; the "not close
enough" remark was made in response to the guesses made in the OPs
original code, not the subsequent responses, most of which hit the nail on
the head.

ACK

Perhaps this acknowledgement puts you in a better temper?

It is not my temper that is the matter here. But JFYI, as you are so
concerned with my health, I have been quite calm when I was writing that
and I am now.

The best advice I can give anyone using JS is to go for the excellent
O'Reilly reference:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript4/index.html
This is recommended in the FAQ only because all other books are worse.

Who's FAQ?

The FAQ of this newsgroup.

Why should I care?

Because you are not a fool?

And in any case, why does this have relevance?

Because it is the FAQ of _this_ newsgroup, written by and contributed to by
its accepted regulars, people whose knowledge about and understanding of
the subjects discussed probably exceeds yours by orders of magnitude?

I recommend it to the OP from my personal experience (and the
^^^^^^^
response of others I recommend it to).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Pardon?

Is your own personal experience of this book different?

Unfortunately, it is. Enough bad examples from it have been posted here.

and you could do worse than have the DHTML reference to had as well:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dhtmlref2/index.html
You could do worse, but this is bad enough. A book published four years
ago is certainly obsolete. The examples in the example chapter prove
that.

Ah, so you haven't read that one *either*?

Of course not. Why should I read or even buy a book that is obviously
obsolete and uses so many bad examples in just one chapter? Would you?

Once again, I am aware of the age of the book, and have had a steady
supply of others to compare it to. It is still without peer if you want to
*grok* DHTML/JS in a platform neutral manner, rather than firefight a
problem or hack something together.

That there is nothing better (which I seriously doubt) does not make it
any good.

Superb references if you want more than a lightweight
quick-and-dirty understanding of each.
Wrong.

LOL, on what basis do you make *that* assertion, exactly?

Personal experience, including experience of postings in this newsgroup
of much higher quality.

BTW: Are you Kamal Sharma of Nugen.net, owner of mememe.com, or do you
have his explicit permission to use his second-level domain? If not,
you better stop this domain abuse at once.

You've Googled!

I have not, whois(1) sufficed. For some of us, the Internet is more than
the Web.

How sweet.

I am glad I could amuse you. You are easily impressed, yes?

But it's a fair point, I keep forgetting to reset my profile.

I'd much prefer to use my real name to tell you to piss off, should it
come to that.

I am sorry to say that your vocabulary does not form
a non-empty intersecting set with mine. [psf 2.13]

I do not care much about your real name, at least not in this NetNews
top-level hierarchy. I care about (misguided) network abuse, and you
should care about that, too.

Happy now?

That was never the point. However, your From header is still not
acceptable as there is no .house top-level domain (yet). See also
<URL:http://giganews.com/legal/aup.html>


HTH

PointedEars
.

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