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Hello Element9inety2wo

Someone once described it as the difference between the Taj Mahal palace/tomb in India and a Taj Mahal restaurant down the road. Java is a serious programming language, whereas Javascript is a cut-down interpreted form for quick internet gadgets.

SEF...

Will you please tell me what section in the Picture library will I find a picture of parrot?

Thank you

kat

I'm not sure I can. I found most of them by more nefarious means. Spook may have done the same unless he used the Search facility creatively. The one he found was an old pun on "bird-watching". I had it down as just that and hadn't identified it as being specifically a parrot. Otherwise I probably would have incorporated that one first. Since, as Spook says, it is much more appropriate.

Thanks SEF

kat

Thanks SEF, thats exactly the kind of answer I was looking for
& without getting too tech-head, does that mean that the fewer (?) JavaScript "commands" are the same as their Java equivalents or do they have a completely different origin?

They are related but the simplest instructions to do something will not always be the same because Java can build onto previous Java. For a bit more detail see: http://itc.utk.edu/itc/clearinghouse/java/jvsjs.html

The basic differences are as I gave them before:
- Java is a serious programming language used for all sorts of things whereas JavaScript is just for web pages.
- Java is compiled (all figured out one-time only in advance so that it runs quickly/efficiently) whereas JavaScript is interpreted (has to be figured out every time making it slower).
- As a result of being compiled, Java can build individual and reusable packages to do stuff (called applets) whereas JavaScript has to be embedded directly into each HTML page which uses it.

Bear in mind I am _not_ an expert in these particular programming languages though. So I may have missed something.

Hi does anyone know where I can find the default sizes for the smilies?

Thanks in advance.

I don't think they are listed anywhere. I can look at them to find out but I guess a digibox user can't. I assume you are trying to enlarge them. You could ask me about specific ones. I can't see it being added as standard to the smileys page (or the picture gallery ones).

SEF, I assume that most of the round ones have the same default anyway. e.g ,

If you could give me the defaults for those, I should(with a little trial and error), be able to work most of them out.

Smileys are supposed to be no more than 16 pixels high (Community Artist guidelines) but sometimes it is better if they are shorter and a few are taller. Width is much more variable (though you may not need to specify both HEIGHT and WIDTH). For example, that "cheers" one is 45 x 16 pixels. The other two you used are both 16 x 16 pixels.

Thanks SEF.

KOW its all pixels to me

again, SEF, that info will do nicely.

Hello... my telewest e-mail address [email protected] is currently out of order... ad has been for about two months...



I've tried to change it in preferences (I know how to change it etc) but when I type in my other e-mail address and press "Update Details" it takes me to an almost blank page... it has "Front Page" "Feedback" "Who is Online" and the search h2g2 bit on it... but that's it... no message cofirming my address has been changed... and I went back into preferences and it had changed back to my SERJTANKIAN address...



Any ideas as to what the problem is??...





Serj

Hi Serj

I've just checked and it seems you have to enter your password if your wanting to change email addresses.

You should enter it into the "current password" field only.

It's still not working...


I did exactly what you said... nothing happens...



Serj

It worked fine for me, I was able to change passwords and back again.

What is it you're doing?