msk2000 wrote: What is the meaning of the word Islam? Praise be to Allaah. That is one translation, but like many non-English words, there is no real direct translation into English. As an example, the French word 'terroir' which pertains to the conditions in which grapes are grown. “Islam” is one such word. It simultaneously … Continued
walterbyrd wrote: I honestly don’t know. But, I have seen articles and posts about how PHP is terribly insecure. PHP is not inherently insecure, but because it’s very easy to write PHP, it has become rather a popular language amongst people with little, if any, formal training on how to program. Because of this, there … Continued
Michael Fesser wrote: My scripts make use of many of the new OOP features in PHP 5, so they won’t run at all on PHP 4. Ditto. My current big pet project is http://demiblog.org/. This is PHP 5+ only and supports MySQL 5+ and PostgreSQL 8+. Although I do realise that earlier versions of these … Continued
idiotprogrammer wrote: I find this to be bothersome and contrary to current web trends. But I can find no articles or recommendations to back me up here. Windows User Experience team, Microsoft Windows User Experience Frequently Asked Questions: Why is the taskbar at the bottom of the screen?, March 2001 Research shows that most users … Continued
TomP wrote: [Atheists] do not believe in the existence of a soul. Although most Buddhists do not believe in any gods, and can therefore be described as atheists, they most certainly do believe in the concept of a soul — indeed, a soul that can continue to exist after death. You do not believe in … Continued
David Dorward wrote: Jukka K. Korpela wrote: But the W3C makes a big noise about it! See http://www.w3.org main page right now. They have created a working draft for XHTML 1.1 Second Edition. Which says that XHTML 1.1 SHOULD be served as text/html… and references a document which says it SHOULD NOT be served as … Continued
Dave in Lake Villa wrote: Could someone please tell me how Evolutionists/Atheists respond to these please ? Thanks. 1. Nothing produced something which then exploded its matter and out of that came personality, abstract thoughts, rationale, intuition, love, hate, discernment and even believe in a personal Creator. You appear to be asking about the Big … Continued
fgdg wrote: Why do we put up with web design software? Nobody makes a PDFs by writing Postscript in Notepad, but that is what designer’s working for the web are expected to do. You are comparing apples with oranges here. PostScript is1 a language for describing what pages look like. HTML is a language for … Continued
skulkrinbait@googlemail.com wrote: My first prototype for doing this doesn’t give good results, the map being far too random, can someone help me out or point me to a good resource please? Real geography is not random. First, take a grid, say 1001Ã1001 is size. Now find the middle square of it and set it to … Continued
cjl wrote: Short of writing a parser, which is clearly beyond me, what are some reasonable approaches to handling user input that will be executed? Writing a parser is the best option in the long-run. If you were to attempt to interpret the user input some other way, like pure regular expressions, then you would … Continued
user wrote: Anyone have a full list of Nationalities? Eg: Germans, French, British, Malaysian, etc etc A lot of people within Britain might not consider themselves British, but rather English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, or perhaps even Cornish. Think also of Kosovo, Quebec and Tibet. People can be quite emotive about such issues. (The list from … Continued
David Segall wrote: I do not deny that the programmer is the most significant factor in the readability of a program but would you really promote PHP as a language because it is easy to read? I certainly wouldn’t advise against it because of legibility concerns. Any language that supports comments (not all do) and … Continued
Noozer wrote: User opens a page. A session starts and they are asked to log in. They spend 30 minutes reading the page, then clicks a link. Since they were on the page for 20+ minutes their session ended. At that point they are asked to log in, and then taken to their chosen page … Continued
Like me, you are probably confronted with many requests for surveys, questionnaires, feedback forms, registration forms and so forth: forms where the processing requirements are very simple (store in a database or e-mail to a particular address). Despite the simple requirements, there is often quite a lot of work involved: crafting a database to store … Continued
Dylan Parry wrote: Of course, but validating against a custom, non-standards controlled DTD is a complete waste of time for HTML. That would be validation for validation’s sake. If you can’t validate against a recognised doctype then there is truly no point in attempting to create your own to cover your problems Using a custom … Continued
Ross wrote: I am seeking your advice on the programming language for such an action. i prefer a web table capable of sorting by size, length and so on, therefore built-in function for sorting is appreciated. Down below are a couple of nice PHP functions that may be of use. I’ve taken them from my … Continued
GreyWyvern wrote: Soon (real soon now) we’ll be progressing to voice-controlled systems. “Copy Document to desktop”, “Empty trash”, “Open Slashdot”. This is precisely an argument for the command-line paradigm! What you are describing is a command-line, with the keyboard simply being replaced with a microphone. Experiment: take someone who is accustomed to using such a … Continued
Red E. Kilowatt wrote: The endless flood of new people who are living at or below the poverty level make overwhelming demands on local public services. […] We might as well put up a big neon sign at the border that says, “Come one, come all. You already have one. It says: Give me your … Continued
local wrote: Now I wonder how important cross-browser coding actually is. How many browsers do I have to test, which versions? I have two philosophies on this question. The first is the philosophy I apply when making my own website — I stick to the standards and let any browser that can't handle it be … Continued
This is an odd question about the moon. Here is a picture of the earth-moon system. As you can see, there is a new moon. My question: where is the sun??? If it’s on the left, then why is the Earth dark on the left? The Moon can’t be blocking the light, because that would … Continued
