What the he** am I missing here?

[McKirahan]

McKirahan wrote on 18 Dec 2003 at Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:14:43 GMT:


<snipped vast amounts of unneeded quoting>

Please, will you both:

1) Not top-post (place your comments under or amongst quoted text)
2) Trim quoted material to only what is relavant to your post

I'm not trying to be awkward; these practices are part of
established Usenet etiquette.

Mike

Will do. Thanks for the heads up.

I did not know that one should:
"Trim quoted material to only what is relavant to your post".

P.S. It's spelled "relevant".

 

[Michael Winter]

McKirahan wrote on 18 Dec 2003 at Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:56:08 GMT:

P.S. It's spelled "relevant".

I didn't think it looked right, but I wasn't in the mood to check my
dictionary.

Besides, I'm tired. Leave me alone. Hehe

Mike

 

[Richard Cornford]

Will do. Thanks for the heads up.

I did not know that one should:
"Trim quoted material to only what is relavant to your post".

<snip>

For future reference, other people's signatures, the part separated from
the body of a post with "-- " (dash-dash-space), is almost never
relevant to a response and so a good candidate for trimming.

Richard.

 

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <[email protected]>, seen in

Is this alt.correct.spelling or is it comp.lang.javascript where most of the
posters (regulars), have English as a second (or third/fourth) language? Thats
being very very pedantic to me.

Most of the regulars who have English as a subsequent language are in
fact rather good at it, and it would be a pity to teach them mistakes.

Moreover, when using a search tool, it helps if one knows how the word
was spelt.

Careful spelling should be encouraged; it is worth a sentence from time
to time, though generally not a dedicated article.

While on the subject of usage : the OP should have chosen an informative
subject line, and his headers use the non-standard AST (clueless news-
service in New Brunswick?).

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

[...] <SELECT name="batchStartDate" size="1" maxlength="50"
value="<SCRIPT>SetDefaultDate()</SCRIPT>"> [...]

[...]

1) size="1" does nothing useful

False. size="1" allows only one option to be visible at the same time.
Recent graphical UAs render such a `select' element as dropdown box.


PointedEars

 

[@SM]

Brent Eamer a ecrit :

Sorry guys, you are right, I don't want a select, cut and paste error. I
wanted the following:

function SetDefaultDate() {
rightnow = new Date("Month dd, yyyy");
return rightnow;
}

<TD align=left> <input type="text" name="batchStartDate" size="20"
maxlength="50" value="SetDefaultDate()">

However it still does not work, sorry for the confusion

try that :

<TD align=left> <input type="text" name="batchStartDate" size="20"
maxlength="50" value=""> <script type="text/javascript"><!--
this.form.batchStartDate.value = SetDefaultDate();
// --></script>