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  • Prisoner at War

    #46
    Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

    On May 13, 9:22 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesm iths.comwrote:
    >
    >
    You know what that's caused by? Case issues in filenames. Sometimes "
    " space characters in filenames not being encoded correctly in URLs
    (although browsers usually compensate for that).
    >
    Your desktop is almost certainly Windows (case-insensitive filenames).
    Your web server filesystem is almost certainly Unix (case-sensitive
    filenames). Your web server is probably (unless they deliberately
    change this) also case-sensitive in URLs.
    >
    So when you test with a local filename that has the wrong case, your
    Windows system doesn't care and it all works.
    >
    You upload this to the server (now case-sensitive) and it fails.
    Huh? Sorry, but case-sensitivity does not appear to be the issue
    here. It's an interesting point you raise, which I note for my future
    reference, thank you kindly, but I don't see how it applies to my
    situation, since my file names are all lower-case, as was every
    reference to them in my src attributes...an d besides, surely a webhost
    should have provided for such matters anyway.
    You talk to tech support, and you both talk yourself into this cargo-
    cult
    LOL -- SBI! as a cargo-cult! It's more true than not, yes...I was
    actually thinking of that Heaven's Gate cult of suicidal UFO-believing
    website designers from the '90s....
    >that it's using an absolute path that's the trick. You get this
    absolute path by browsing to the directory with the files in (through
    the web server), seeing a list of file URLs (generated by the server,
    so the case is correct) and you then copy and paste one of these.
    ????
    Two things have happened: you've switched from relative to absolute
    (obvious, but unimportant) and you've also corrected the case of the
    filename in the URL (easily ignored but crucial). _That's_ why "it
    started working when you went to absolute paths".
    I apologize, Andy, but I know nothing about servers, so I'm not able
    to place your remarks in a useful context vis-a-vis my situation...if
    you don't mind, would you please do a step-by-step "chronology " of the
    chain of events? I honestly don't know how to "parse" your
    statements; I don't know how servers work and it sounds like you're
    referring to how they work....

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    • Prisoner at War

      #47
      Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

      On May 12, 11:41 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centra l.netwrote:
      >
      >
      No, but you have to have your relative paths correct...
      Look, look at this: http://ego-management.org/test.html -- look at the
      HTML/JavaScript.

      Notice that my image-swap now works?

      The **only** thing that's different now from when it didn't work is
      that the first src attribute in the <imgtag has an absolute file
      path name.

      It's got nothing to do with whether my path names were correct -- they
      were; they just were in relative format, whereas due to a bug in their
      CMS they need the first one to be in absolute format when used as an
      image-swap.
      <snipped signature YOU SHOULD BE DOING THIS >
      Huh?
      Okay are you sure the uploaded images are not corrupted? Upload as ASCII
      and not BINARY can do it. In a different path. Case error on filename, a
      common Windows user error. On local Windows drive example.jpg,
      ExAmPlE.JpG and example.JPG are all the same, but no on a live
      webserver.
      No, none of that was the reason. It was "simply" their CMS not seeing
      the first src attribute unless that first src attribute was in
      absolute file path format.
      If the images are of significant size and a slow connection
      or server you may not see the change when to crudely place the image
      load in a onMouseOver onMouseOut attribute, Far better to preload. Let
      me see, been a while since I have fiddle with JavaScript image swaps
      I took out preloading, timed animation, cursor graphics changes, etc.,
      because I wanted to help clarify the issue for tech support. That's
      why http://ego-management.org/test.html is called "test," and why it's
      a very simple <html><head><ti tle></title></head><body><img /></body></
      htmlaffair.
      <script type="text/javascript">
      >
      var pix as new Object;
      >
      pix['imageID1']=new Array;
      pix['imageID1'][0]=new Image;
      pix['imageID1'][0].src='someimage off.gif';
      pix['imageID1'][1]=new Image;
      pix['imageID1'][1].src='someimage on.gif';
      // next image
      pix['imageID2']=new Array;
      pix['imageID2'][0]=new Image;
      ...
      >
      function swap(id,state){
      var target=document .getElementById (id);
      target.src=pix[id][state].src;}
      >
      </script>
      >
      In HTML:
      >
      <img id="imageID1" src="someimageo ff.gif' alt="the target image">
      >
      ...
      >
      <some_element onmouseover="sw ap('imageID1',1 );"
      onmouseout="swa p('imageID1',0) ;" ... >
      Uh...thanks, but that would certainly have confused tech support.
      Remember that they (and even you people!) kept thinking I was asking
      for programming help!

      I'm not.

      I'm asking why a program that works from off my hard drive doesn't
      work from off their server.

      But for some reason when people see code they just assume the problem
      is due to the code -- as opposed to however the CMS or whatever is
      parsing that code.

      It turns out that their CMS has a bug which causes it to ignore the
      first src attribute of an image-swap, thus killing the image-swap,
      unless that src attribute is in absolute file path name format.

      And that's just the final straw for me.

      I don't want to maybe spend more time figuring out any other strange
      little things particular to them, later on.

      I'm still almost sorry to have to cancel them, as they are good in
      other ways, but as a webhost...nahh, just too much one thing after
      another (unless you just turn off your brain and use their cookie-
      cutter webpage maker widget).
      --
      Take care,
      >
      Jonathan
      -------------------
      LITTLE WORKS STUDIOhttp://www.LittleWorks Studio.com

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      • Prisoner at War

        #48
        Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

        On May 13, 6:32 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesm iths.comwrote:
        >
        >
        The simplest explanation, and this is backed up by long empirical
        studies conducted by _anyone_ who has supported users, is that what
        you're describing to us doesn't bear too much relation to the actual
        reality. That's the first lesson of supporting users, and just one
        reason why you don't touch such issues with a bargepole unless you can
        get your _own_ hands on the same code, in the same context.
        IOW, the so-called "availabili ty heuristic" -- assessing the
        individual situation at hand based on the examples that come most
        readily to mind.

        Stereotyping, in short. The pre-conceptions you've brought made you
        see things that weren't there. Just like how the SBI! CMS has certain
        "pre-conceptions" programmed into it that made it not see things that
        *are* there.

        Why their CMS needs to see absolute file paths is strange -- but
        stranger still is why it's only the first src that needs it; moreover,
        only in the case of an image-swap -- everything else in standard
        relative path format works!

        For $300 a year, this is just too silly for me to deal with,
        especially since it's taken two weeks to diagnose. What next? No
        blue text in a <h3>??
        In your last reply to me you claimed that setting an onmouseover event
        to a URL for an image somehow "works", so long as it's on your
        machine, or it's on the host's (and uses an absolute path). Despite
        this clearly _not_ being what your example does.
        Uhhh...I guess we're stumbling over semantics, then.

        Look at the code for http://www.ego-management.org/test.html and tell
        me what is wrong with it. I don't mean from a "good practices" POV;
        merely what would cause it to not work.

        It works, doesn't it?

        Yet the ***only*** thing that's different from what hadn't worked
        before was that the first src attribute of the <imgtag was in
        relative file path format -- like the other src attributes still are,
        incidentally.

        What's your explanation for that? Why does the same exact code work
        now, only with an absolute file path -- and only on that first src
        attribute?
        Now if this _is_
        true, that's news to the W3C: this stuff just doesn't work quite that
        way. So my only conclusion has to be that there's some vagueness
        creeping in between the code that's failing to work, and the code
        you're reporting to us for diagnosis. No one is "wrong" here, it's
        just like trying to work at too long range, wearing thick gloves and
        dark glasses.
        What I was aghast over was people's attitude that the issue was not
        something my webhost had a responsibility to resolve -- their own
        attitude initially, too -- despite my repeated declarations that the
        situation is not about programming help for invalid code, but why
        valid code (strict W3C "good practices" aside) should work off my hard
        drive but not off their servers.
        This is also why most posters here insist on URLs, rather than posted
        fragments.
        I've given a URL: http://ego-management.org/test.html -- see how it's
        as simple as I've said all along, isn't it: notice how the first src
        attribute is in absolute file path format, but not the others?

        That URL wasn't working until that one change was made -- that's all;
        just that one little thing.

        Sorry, SBI! -- I'd loved you, but you just keep getting more and more
        weird on me!

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        • Prisoner at War

          #49
          Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

          On May 12, 10:07 pm, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailb ox-
          sicur...@yahoo. com.auwrote:
          >
          >
          But you don't even understand baysic things like how to size images
          properly for the web which is baysic stuff.
          Huh???

          Wow, what a nit-picking non sequitur...shou ld I point out your poor
          spelling as a reason to discount what you have to say??

          And just what is it you have to say? How have you added to the
          conversation??

          It's precisely because I do not know that I've come to ask for advice.

          If you have something relevant to the matter at hand, please share it.

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          • Prisoner at War

            #50
            Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

            On May 12, 10:32 pm, shawn <javaforh...@gm ail.comwrote:
            This whole thread is either somebody's desire to waste developer's
            time, or an attempt to discredit the host. This lil tangent has gone
            too far. I thought this was a group devoted to JavaScript.

            I posted to CLJ originally because my situation seemed to involve
            JavaScript -- at least that's what the webhost was initially saying,
            that it was my invalid code and not something the matter with how they
            host websites. So I posted to CLP to see if someone might find that
            there was indeed something the matter with my code.

            Turns out it's something to do with their CMS. That it's taken two
            weeks for them to determine that is but another fact speaking for
            itself. If my review of the webhost is negative, it is due to the
            accumulation of such facts.



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            • Prisoner at War

              #51
              Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

              On May 12, 10:41 pm, "Andrew Heenan" <andr...@heenan .netwrote:
              >
              >
              Which group do you mean?
              >
              You have posted to FIVE groups.
              =)

              Look, everyone, I'm sorry that it seems my thread and the problem it
              documents is taking up some much bandwidth (or whatever) -- I was
              hoping to solicit a wide range of opinions, as well as establish a
              "public record" where it would seem relevant to do so. Please
              consider all this as just a public-service kind of consumer advisory.
              --
              >
              Andrew
              >
              UK Residents:
              STOP THE "10p Tax Ripoff"
              Sign the petition to stop the government stealing from the
              very poorest tell your friends about this petition:http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/10penceband/

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              • Chaddy2222

                #52
                Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please



                Prisoner at War wrote:
                On May 12, 10:07 pm, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailb ox-
                sicur...@yahoo. com.auwrote:


                But you don't even understand baysic things like how to size images
                properly for the web which is baysic stuff.
                >
                Huh???
                >
                Wow, what a nit-picking non sequitur...shou ld I point out your poor
                spelling as a reason to discount what you have to say??
                >
                And just what is it you have to say? How have you added to the
                conversation??
                >
                It's precisely because I do not know that I've come to ask for advice.
                >
                Yep, I do understand that. Mind you I think what I am trying to say is
                that you should do a bit more reading on baysic web design issues.
                Such as not adding things to your pages that do not need to be there.
                Mind you it is all a learning thing and with the way that the web is
                changeing all the time it can be hard to stay on top of things. But
                the simple stuff does not change that much.
                --
                Regards Chad. http://freewebdesignonline.org

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                • Prisoner at War

                  #53
                  Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please


                  I'm an idiot, and yet you do exactly as I do and cross-post in your
                  turn.

                  What a hypocrite to boot!

                  These newsgroups are not "irrelevant"... the only thing irrelevant is
                  your constant bitching over my consumer complaint. I had to come to
                  usenet 'cause I couldn't trust that SBI! knew what the hell they're
                  talking about anymore. I don't know why that should upset you, unless
                  "Jerry Stuckle" is just JavaScript for
                  onLoad="documen t.head.setAttri bute('stupid')" ....

                  This thread concerns webhosts (thus, AP and AWW), consumers (MC),
                  website development (CIWAH), and originally maybe JavaScript (CLP).

                  If you can't be bothered to help, please just do yourself a favor and
                  stop following this thread.


                  On May 13, 11:52 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:
                  >
                  >
                  Yea, unfortunately, the idiot crossposted to a bunch of other irrelevant
                  newsgroups.
                  >
                  With everything else in the thread - enough said.
                  >
                  --
                  =============== ===
                  Remove the "x" from my email address
                  Jerry Stuckle
                  JDS Computer Training Corp.
                  jstuck...@attgl obal.net
                  =============== ===

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                  • Prisoner at War

                    #54
                    Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

                    On May 13, 6:37 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesm iths.comwrote:
                    >
                    >
                    Wasn't it something like "Cronin's 14th Law of Dotcom" that you should
                    never trust a dot-com company that uses exclamation marks in their
                    company name?
                    If only it were limited to their name! Their whole branding strategy
                    seems to involve exclamation points...they have online modules
                    ("widgets") called SearchIt!, FindIt!, BrainstormIt!, FastUploadIt!,
                    SiteBlogIt!, BuildIt!, FormBuildIt!... .

                    I know it's all very hokey and late-night-TV-infomercial-y but hey I'm
                    a newbie and it seemed as good as any place to start...their citing
                    the University of Arizona and The Citadel as being among their
                    subscribers meant a lot to me, and their money-back guarantee seemed
                    fair, even generous, and safe....

                    I'd still recommend them, but only for people who don't really care
                    how their website looks and have absolutely no interest in "web
                    development mechanics"...th ey're not turn-key automation, though they
                    try to suggest that, but they are probably as close as could be come
                    to that short of hiring someone to do it for you.

                    Part of the reason why I'm being public about all this is that you
                    can't find an honest review of them on the web. They're not a bad
                    company, AFAIK, but it's very strange how you can't find a single
                    negative review of them (not on either side of 30 SERPs, anyway),
                    either, so hopefully this thread will prove of some future use in a
                    sea of sales landing pages.

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                    • Prisoner at War

                      #55
                      Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

                      On May 13, 1:05 pm, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailb ox-
                      sicur...@yahoo. com.auwrote:
                      >
                      >
                      Yep, I do understand that. Mind you I think what I am trying to say is
                      that you should do a bit more reading on baysic web design issues.
                      Such as not adding things to your pages that do not need to be there.
                      That's my life-philosophy, my Weltanschauung, even; I don't even have
                      a phone (none whatsoever) 'cause I don't really need it. "Minimalism "
                      and "less is more" are personal ideals to live by!

                      But this situation has nothing to do with those issues. I'm not
                      asking for aesthetic judgments on whether an '90s-style image-swap is
                      advisable; I was asking how could valid code that works off my hard
                      drive not work off the webhost's server. I had no "intellectu al
                      framework" in which to imagine such a possibility until, thanks to
                      this thread, I learned about something called Content Management
                      Software....
                      Mind you it is all a learning thing and with the way that the web is
                      changeing all the time it can be hard to stay on top of things. But
                      the simple stuff does not change that much.
                      I just got "DOM Scripting" last week and I'm almost halfway through it
                      (though digestion and actual grokking will be considerably longer, of
                      course).

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                      • Jonathan N. Little

                        #56
                        Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

                        Prisoner at War wrote:
                        On May 12, 11:41 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centra l.netwrote:
                        >>
                        >No, but you have to have your relative paths correct...
                        >
                        Look, look at this: http://ego-management.org/test.html -- look at the
                        HTML/JavaScript.
                        >
                        Notice that my image-swap now works?
                        >
                        The **only** thing that's different now from when it didn't work is
                        that the first src attribute in the <imgtag has an absolute file
                        path name.
                        >
                        It's got nothing to do with whether my path names were correct -- they
                        were; they just were in relative format, whereas due to a bug in their
                        CMS they need the first one to be in absolute format when used as an
                        image-swap.
                        That make no sense at all. If you properly use a relative path to your
                        Document Root (which on a webserver you have, but on a local file system
                        you don't) is will work. With your page, if the image is in the folder
                        "image-files" off of your document root and the webpage is in your
                        document root then:


                        image-files/awww4.png
                        ../image-files/awww4.png
                        /image-files/awww4.png

                        would all display the image. Don't believe me? Create a file
                        "test2.html " in your document root and paste this code.

                        <html><head><ti tle>4 Dogs</title></head>
                        <body>
                        <h1>See 4 Dogs</h1>
                        <ol>
                        <li>
                        <img src="http://www.ego-management.org/image-files/awww4.png" alt="one">
                        </li>
                        <li>
                        <img src="image-files/awww4.png" alt="two">
                        </li>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                        <img src="./image-files/awww4.png" alt="two">
                        </li>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                        <img src="/image-files/awww4.png" alt="two">
                        </li>
                        </ol>
                        </body></html>
                        >
                        ><snipped signature YOU SHOULD BE DOING THIS >
                        >
                        Huh?
                        >
                        Time to learn how to post on Usenet.


                        netiquette posting on Usenet - Google Search
                        >Okay are you sure the uploaded images are not corrupted? Upload as ASCII
                        >and not BINARY can do it. In a different path. Case error on filename, a
                        >common Windows user error. On local Windows drive example.jpg,
                        >ExAmPlE.JpG and example.JPG are all the same, but no on a live
                        >webserver.
                        >
                        No, none of that was the reason. It was "simply" their CMS not seeing
                        the first src attribute unless that first src attribute was in
                        absolute file path format.
                        What CMS? Are to publishing though from sort of frontend? Can you not
                        compose in plain text editor, like Notepad then FTP the page to the server?
                        >
                        >If the images are of significant size and a slow connection
                        >or server you may not see the change when to crudely place the image
                        >load in a onMouseOver onMouseOut attribute, Far better to preload. Let
                        >me see, been a while since I have fiddle with JavaScript image swaps
                        >
                        I took out preloading, timed animation, cursor graphics changes, etc.,
                        because I wanted to help clarify the issue for tech support. That's
                        why http://ego-management.org/test.html is called "test," and why it's
                        a very simple <html><head><ti tle></title></head><body><img /></body></
                        htmlaffair.
                        >
                        ><script type="text/javascript">
                        >>
                        >var pix as new Object;
                        >>
                        >pix['imageID1']=new Array;
                        >pix['imageID1'][0]=new Image;
                        >pix['imageID1'][0].src='someimage off.gif';
                        >pix['imageID1'][1]=new Image;
                        >pix['imageID1'][1].src='someimage on.gif';
                        >// next image
                        >pix['imageID2']=new Array;
                        >pix['imageID2'][0]=new Image;
                        >...
                        >>
                        >function swap(id,state){
                        > var target=document .getElementById (id);
                        > target.src=pix[id][state].src;}
                        >>
                        ></script>
                        >>
                        >In HTML:
                        >>
                        ><img id="imageID1" src="someimageo ff.gif' alt="the target image">
                        >>
                        >...
                        >>
                        ><some_elemen t onmouseover="sw ap('imageID1',1 );"
                        >onmouseout="sw ap('imageID1',0 );" ... >
                        >
                        Uh...thanks, but that would certainly have confused tech support.
                        Remember that they (and even you people!) kept thinking I was asking
                        for programming help!
                        A hosting company will not debug your scripts. At least not for free...
                        <snip>

                        Note, answer to question about trimming signatures. Below is my
                        signature which you have quoted. Don't. Remove my signature, real
                        newsreaders do this automatically. But don't snip quotes attributes for
                        quotes that you leave in. You see this thread as one long web page, that
                        is not how it looks in a newsreader.
                        >
                        >--
                        >Take care,
                        >>
                        >Jonathan
                        >-------------------
                        >LITTLE WORKS STUDIOhttp://www.LittleWorks Studio.com
                        >

                        --
                        Take care,

                        Jonathan
                        -------------------
                        LITTLE WORKS STUDIO

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                        • Prisoner at War

                          #57
                          Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

                          On May 13, 3:11 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centra l.netwrote:
                          >
                          >
                          That make no sense at all. If you properly use a relative path to your
                          Document Root (which on a webserver you have, but on a local file system
                          you don't) is will work. With your page, if the image is in the folder
                          "image-files" off of your document root and the webpage is in your
                          document root then:
                          >

                          image-files/awww4.png
                          ./image-files/awww4.png
                          /image-files/awww4.png
                          >
                          would all display the image. Don't believe me? Create a file
                          "test2.html " in your document root and paste this code.
                          >
                          <html><head><ti tle>4 Dogs</title></head>
                          <body>
                          <h1>See 4 Dogs</h1>
                          <ol>
                          <li>
                          <img src="http://www.ego-management.org/image-files/awww4.png" alt="one">
                          </li>
                          <li>
                          <img src="image-files/awww4.png" alt="two">
                          </li>
                          </li>
                          <li>
                          <img src="./image-files/awww4.png" alt="two">
                          </li>
                          </li>
                          <li>
                          <img src="/image-files/awww4.png" alt="two">
                          </li>
                          </ol>
                          </body></html>
                          I'm sorry, I don't even know what you mean to say.

                          Why should the first src attribute be in absolute path format?
                          Time to learn how to post on Usenet.
                          >
                          http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...rg.mozilla:en-...
                          netiquette posting on Usenet - Google Search
                          Ah, so you were referring to your .sig not being trimmed.

                          Tell me, why do you have a .sig if you want other people to trim it?
                          Just don't have a .sig at all, then, if you don't want people to see
                          it!
                          What CMS? Are to publishing though from sort of frontend? Can you not
                          compose in plain text editor, like Notepad then FTP the page to the server?
                          The CMS on their side...apparent ly, they use some kind of CMS to host
                          the websites they do...they're not just a regular standard webhost; I
                          can't just FTP up an image or something; I can only send up an .html
                          document through a specific widget of theirs, and only then upload
                          images ***if*** the webpage specifically calls for them...it's very
                          weird and awkward and ham-fisted since their system was not designed
                          for people to create their own HTML -- but they try to accommodate
                          those who don't want to use their online widgets for website creation
                          (since that results in a "cookie-cutter look")...unfort unately,
                          there's at least one bug in their CMS, such that a simple image-swap
                          can occasion such a fuss....
                          A hosting company will not debug your scripts. At least not for free...
                          <snip>
                          Jesus F. Christ -- I AM NOT asking them for programming help!!! I
                          HAVE NEVER asked them for programming help!!! What don't you
                          understand between code that works in my browser when loaded from my
                          hard drive, and ***the same exact code*** not working in my browser
                          when loaded from their server!!

                          Please get your head around that! Otherwise you are heading towards a
                          wholly different conversation than what I'm having here!!
                          Note, answer to question about trimming signatures. Below is my
                          signature which you have quoted. Don't. Remove my signature, real
                          newsreaders do this automatically. But don't snip quotes attributes for
                          quotes that you leave in. You see this thread as one long web page, that
                          is not how it looks in a newsreader.
                          Geez, why should I be responsible for the fact that your software
                          can't do what seems a most logical thing, which is to display a thread
                          as a tree??

                          Why should I be responsible for trimming text (your .sig) that you
                          want to put in??

                          Why would you even use a .sig if you want people to redact it out????
                          <SNIP>
                          There, Happy Birthday! =\

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                          • Disco Octopus

                            #58
                            Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

                            On May 14, 3:01 am, Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_.. .@yahoo.comwrot e:
                            >
                            It turns out now that SBI! has a bug in their CMS which requires the
                            first src attribute of an <imgtag involved in an image-swap to use
                            the absolute file path name format, while everything else can remain
                            relative.
                            That is interesting. I have seen this before in some WYSIWYG inline
                            editors. Would they be using something called tiny_mce or something
                            like that? I think that there is a flag in the configuration of this
                            WYSIWYG editor that says to "resolve paths when saving content" or
                            "dont resolve paths". Just a guess and a thought from past experience
                            with these types of tools.

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                            • Chaddy2222

                              #59
                              Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please



                              Prisoner at War wrote:
                              On May 13, 1:05 pm, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailb ox-
                              sicur...@yahoo. com.auwrote:


                              Yep, I do understand that. Mind you I think what I am trying to say is
                              that you should do a bit more reading on baysic web design issues.
                              Such as not adding things to your pages that do not need to be there.
                              >
                              That's my life-philosophy, my Weltanschauung, even; I don't even have
                              a phone (none whatsoever) 'cause I don't really need it. "Minimalism "
                              and "less is more" are personal ideals to live by!
                              >
                              But this situation has nothing to do with those issues. I'm not
                              asking for aesthetic judgments on whether an '90s-style image-swap is
                              advisable; I was asking how could valid code that works off my hard
                              drive not work off the webhost's server.
                              By not actually being valid code. Read about quirks vs standards mode
                              and gain a good understanding of it before doing anything. It can have
                              a large impact on how your pages work on the web.
                              For a start your page does not have a doctype, give it one and
                              validate your pages. DO NOT use XHTML I have set my editor to not use
                              it for all new sites that I develop. Google for the reasons why you
                              should not use it.
                              --
                              Regards Chad. http://freewebdesignonline.org

                              <snip>

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                              • Andy Dingley

                                #60
                                Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

                                On 13 May, 17:43, Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_.. .@yahoo.comwrot e:
                                Why their CMS needs to see absolute file paths is strange -- but
                                stranger still is why it's only the first src that needs it;
                                So swap it back to being a relative filepath. Now that it's working, I
                                bet that it will _continue_ to work when you change this. That's
                                because this wasn't ever the problem at all.

                                Maybe you'll think it's "stereotypi ng" when I tell you that this is a
                                very common situation in user support. This is also why you always aim
                                to get a simple example _working_ first, then modify it gradually to
                                do what you need (whilst also keeping it working). Changing something
                                that's working is so much easier than fixing something that isn't
                                working.

                                I don't know why it didn't (past tense) work, but I doubt _VERY_ much
                                if it was to do with absolute paths. It just doesn't work that way.
                                Something else caused the problem, you didn't notice quite what it was
                                that fixed it, it just happened at the same time. Now switch the path
                                (and ONLY the path) back to being relative, and I bet it will still
                                keep on working.

                                Welcome to user support. That's what it consists of day in, day out.
                                This is how cargo cults develop.
                                Look at the code for <http://www.ego-management.org/test.htmland tell
                                me what is wrong with it.
                                It works, doesn't it?
                                No one is disputing that, merely that it could also be different
                                (relative path), yet still work.

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