Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Simon Josephson
Breton Thanks for your time in explaining the intricacies and intrigues of Object Oriented Programming. Very enlightening. Thanks greatly Simon artatwork.com.au On 24/10/2008, at 11:58 AM, Breton

[WSG] Drop Down Menu

2008-10-24 Thread Fuji kusaka
Hi guys, am working on a project where i need to make a drop down list menu populate another drop down list. I actually dont need the intial value to be Select fomr list Here is my code source: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN

RE: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread michael.brockington
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Patterson Sent: 24 October 2008 02:25 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please Oh, most definitely agreed. Sorry if I started an argument, I only wanted to know what it was. I

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... As others have said, most other OO languages implement class-based inheritance, often as a result of their linear underpinnings. People who are used to this approach, then go through some horrible kludges to simulate this unnecessarily in JavaScript apps, and then complain that the

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Anthony
Word. Regards, Anthony. Sent from my iPhone! On 24/10/2008, at 11:32 PM, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The language itself is NOT object-orientated, its proto-type based. It can be used in an OOP fashion, but this is not true Object Orientation as it is in languages such as

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Christian Montoya
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you ask people who are truly expert with JavaScript, they will all tell you that it _is_ Object-Oriented, not least because it is entirely object-based: the first rule of JavaScript is: Everything is an object. A function is an

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
I don't think Javascript is Object-Based, because I can just write a function that prints instead of using an object. And even though Javascript has objects, I think the style of writing it is more accurately described by the prototype model. You can print Hello, world in Ruby without

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Nancy Johnson
A bit off topic, but not totally: are there any free good online tutorials (best practices and/or standards based) to help me learn to write javascript? Thanks, Nancy On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Rimantas Liubertas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think Javascript is Object-Based,

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Brett Patterson
Hey Nancy, You might can try using w3schools.com. On my delicious bookmarks page, delicious.com/irontombraider, I do have some JavaScript pages bookmarked. Later, Brett On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Nancy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: A bit off topic, but not totally: are there any

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread liorean
2008/10/24 James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The language itself is NOT object-orientated, its proto-type based. It can be used in an OOP fashion, but this is not true Object Orientation as it is in languages such as C++. Two serious problems with this statement: First, the prototype system is

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread liorean
2008/10/24 Nancy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A bit off topic, but not totally: are there any free good online tutorials (best practices and/or standards based) to help me learn to write javascript? Well, not a comprehensive learn-javascript-from-scratch course, but this is a really good place

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Andrew Brown
If you want to really rock the javascript, I'd go pick up pragmatics book http://www.pragprog.com/titles/cppsu/prototype-and-script-aculo-us I became a rockstar at javascript after this book On 24-Oct-08, at 3:35 PM, liorean wrote: 2008/10/24 Nancy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A bit off

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Breton Slivka
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Nancy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit off topic, but not totally: are there any free good online tutorials (best practices and/or standards based) to help me learn to write javascript? Thanks, Nancy This is the best javascript lesson book online

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Brett Patterson
Why would you avoid w3schools? They do have some good information. So why? On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Breton Slivka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Nancy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit off topic, but not totally: are there any free good online

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Andrew Brown
W3Schools is S 1995 On 24-Oct-08, at 6:59 PM, Brett Patterson wrote: Why would you avoid w3schools? They do have some good information. So why? On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Breton Slivka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Nancy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread David Dorward
Brett Patterson wrote: Why would you avoid w3schools? They do have some good information. So why? They have a lot of bad information - and spotting the difference is hard if you are trying to learn from them. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-24 Thread Christian Snodgrass
David Dorward wrote: Brett Patterson wrote: Why would you avoid w3schools? They do have some good information. So why? They have a lot of bad information - and spotting the difference is hard if you are trying to learn from them. I second that. They actually have a LOT more bad

[WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-24 Thread Lynette Smith
Good morning http://www.westernwebdesign.com.au/EWAN/index.html Two pages uploaded: Home and Operation. Does anyone know why the font-size (specified in css - body 80%) is different on these two pages? Home is the correct one, but it is bigger on the second page and the succeeding page

Re: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-24 Thread Johan Douma
Because all the paragraphs are wrapped into a h2 h2OPERATIONh2 pThe network has an executive committee who have been meeting monthly since 1996. This committee discusses and acts on EWAN busin The h2 after OPERATION hasn't been closed. Cheers, Johan PS. I don't think this is a Support

Re: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-24 Thread Lynette Smith
Thanks Johan - stupid of me! Lyn *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]