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(...) Just tried this with Netscape 6 and confirmed that the editing box does not wrap lines. Kinda ironic - something working at LUGNET with IE but not Netscape... :) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 'Course, now I am posting this message from Netscape 6 (which blows, by the way - could it be ANY slower? But its the only thing that works to download my bank accounts into QIF files for Quicken, oddly enough...) and the lines wrap here just (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, and while I am thinking about it, having just gone through the maddening process again, is there any way to make the member sign-in ALSO function as the posting setup process? Every time I sign in from a new computer I blissfully start (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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(...) Is there a specification as to how WRAP=NONE should *look*, or just what it should do (ie, not insert carridge returns etc)? I think I prefer the way WRAP=NONE is presented better in Netscape - less ambiguity as to what is a seperate line, and (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm glad that it isn't just me who found Netscape6 ridiculously slow. I thought it might be the fact I'm running on a p166, and perhaps it was geared towards a higher platform. But even simple things like scrolling my messages in my inbox (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Works as designed, actually; these boxes aren't supposed to wrap automatically like news articles. One reason is that it's extremely painful to enter an indented bullet list of URLs when the lines wrap automatically, i.e. * (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's right -- they're not supposed to wrap automatically. As near as I can figure, BTW, MSIE is not broken in this regard because the WRAP= attribute of the <TEXTAREA> tag is not part of the HTML 3.2 or 4.01 standard and thus the two (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) the (...) sense (...) which (...) Pretty please with sugar on it! I want LUGNET to keep info on me so once I prove myself I can ask LUGNET to send down standard cookies, so to speak. There are other things I'd like LUGNET to keep track of for (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow! Richard, this is an aside, but you are really showing us what FTX can do! Very nice. That is a NIFTY little model viewing application/thingid you built with FTX, people should play with the buttons and put .ftx on the end whenver you get (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Remember, it's not a released product yet. The current daily builds of mozilla are much better. Expect a big improvement from the next Netscape beta. (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It works as a single line because the <IMG> tag uses HSPACE=0 and VSPACE=0 as attributes, which causes all the images to abut. If using tables, it would display with lots of whitespace because the tables mechanism (again, it's meant mainly for (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oops, strike that. No wonder I couldn't remember what n was -- it doesn't increase the CELLPADDING; it inserts cells with 's so that it scales properly with the default font size (whereas pixel counts don't). --Todd (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape)
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(...) I figured out last night how to make a not-too-kludged transitional workable thingie. I made a thingie where it now stores 'virtual' cookies into your Member record. If you're signed in, then it fetches the virtual cookie from there as if it (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| | Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape)
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This is fantastic - THANKS! One question though - do you have to go through steps 1 and 2, to create 'virtual cookies', or will it work automatically for people now when they log in as members? Richard (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You rock. Guess i have to stop using "ToddIsAWeenie" as my password now. :-) (1) Can you let it check for a cookie on the machine first, and if present, use that (a particular machine may have different details such as org, for whatever (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You have to actually go through steps 1 and 2 (once) because the cookies aren't sent by your browser unless you're "in" the area of the website to which the cookie applies. (It's a bandwidth-saving optimization because some cookies can get (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape)
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(...) See (URL) (...) There's only one "virtual cookie" per member record -- so it doesn't support multiple news-posting configs. (...) That's not quite how it works -- it doesn't send you a cookie when you sign in. Rather, it notices that you've (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape)
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(...) Too bad. What would be nice is letting me take explicit control of my cookies, that is, go to a page where LUGNET shows me all my LUGNET related cookies currently present on the machine, if any, and currently stored in my member record, if (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) thought (...) You're right - I probably am being overly critical of 6 considering its preview status. I downloaded the latest build of mozilla and tried repeatedly to respond to this message with it but it kept crashing. Otherwise it did seem (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I haven't had a problem with crashing in quite a while, although the speed seems to vary from day to day. Unfortunately, I think they've got a long way to go before it's Done. (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I just downloaded and installed M16 and tried to recreate the crash I was getting before - couldn't do it. All I did before was select all the text from the end of your post to the end of your sig and hit backspace and WHAM! it would (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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