Re: More sale items - better format

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On Feb 25, 6:52 pm, Gernot Hassenpflug <ger...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
willshak <wills...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
on 2/25/2009 12:30 AM (ET) Gray Ghost wrote the following:
Mad-Modeller <checkrepl...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:8O-dnX0O5
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I don't get it. The font is Arial 10 Bold. I don't see how that
gets away from the cells. I use the accesibilty option in Internet
Options. It lets me

Hi, first of all, in web design the designer doesn't get to specify
the font. /../

Second, Arial 10 Bold is not likely to be on every machine. /../

Third, specifying font size is another big no-no. /../

A page design should be as far as possible free from visual
formatting /../


I am begining to understand that. Shame on me. I used to write code
that was as generic as possible so as to work in the greatest number
of enviroments. Back to junior for me.

/../

I did the main and other pages in Word. What a fraking mistake! I
redid them as just bare HTML. There are basic tables in some laid
out as you describe just <tr> and <td>.

The lists were Excel, I was trying to make my job easier. Actually
what I want is to allow the user to make a few selection - type,
scale - etc and then generate and display a custom *** with a
minimum of formatting. i did it once before several years ago but
can't find the code I did it with. I was reading through my HTML
books but that looks like a dead end neither VBScript or JavaScript
have the data handling I need. Got any ideas?

Hi Frank,

I am part of an engineering team of 6 people in our company designing,
implementing and maintaining a web application for a mobile
advertising server. I myself am neither the dedicated UI designer, nor
the dedicated front-end (read: Javascript) guy, so I have to qualify
when I say I have some ideas. I am not an expert.

You're quite right though in that this requires "dynamic HTML", either
server-based (e.g., CGI) or client-based (e.g., Javascript), or a
combination of the two (e.g., Javascript used to make a requiest to
the server, and then format the page accordingly to display the new
information received from the server).

Server-based has the advantage that the user does not need to have
scripting enabled, the server simply presents a whole new page to the
browser. But it is far less flexible, can take longer (though I
personally think the current implementations of Javascript
interpreters and XUL combined with haphazard coding and so on make the
difference moot).

I think i can invoke an exe through a link but how do i get the
output HTML to display and will "back" still work? Have to test I
guess.

I guess that depends on how your data is stored, and how you access
it. If you have a database like MySQL holding the data, then the
access depends on your web framework and a mapper (if any) between the
web framework and the database (to translate the tables into program
arrays). I suppose the simplest would be to have plain text tables to
hold the data (or CVS) and process it with command-line tools (like
awk) and build a simple table (again, using awk) which then gets
inserted verbatim into the HTML page at a particular location
(whereever the exe is positioned).

That's not very specific, I know...
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Gernot Hassenpflug
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