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From: Fokke Nauta <fnautaNO@SPAMsolfon.nl>
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Subject: Re: Continuous vertical marquee doesn't work properly
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:35:37 +0100
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On 14/11/2012 11:24, Evertjan. wrote:
> Fokke Nauta wrote on 14 nov 2012 in comp.lang.javascript:
>
>> Write my own?
>> I'd rather first take a course of Java, then.
>
> Why would you want to do that?

Because before one can produce a piece of code, you'll need to know the 
syntax.
I don't know exactly how Javascript works, to be honest. How on earth 
would I write a piece of code in it? First learn the syntax, then you 
can write something.

> A course of Sanskrit would be nearly as usefull.

Perhaps not, but maybe very interesting.

> Javascrit is NOT a scriptform of Java.

I'm aware of that!

>> But, then again, I may be too old for that.
>
> Puh, I am 10 years older than you are,
> and you profess to be a professional computer-teacher,
> I believe.
>
> <http://www.fokkenauta.nl/d.shtml>

Yeah, that's correct. But sometimes I feel a bit old all of a sudden, 
especially when I see that many youngsters are much more capable of 
programming something than I am.

But to start learning Javascript?
As a matter of fact I never liked programming. I wrote many Unix shell 
scripts once. And I did some Pascal. What I liked was writing complex 
batch files for 4DOS, and I still do for the TC/LE command processor 
from JP software. And I liked programming BASIC. But that's a long time 
gone.
But those were the only exceptions I really liked programming.

>> No, I don't see that as a possibility. Neither did I want to exchange
>> complete scripts. I was looking for just a little finetuning of the
>> script I found.
>> But, and that is the good news, I've found it myself.
>> In the line:
>> <div id="iemarquee2"
>> style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:10px;width:100%;z-index:100;back
>> ground:white;"> I removed "background:white"
>
> CSS has it's own NG, btw:
>     comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets

OK, that's good to know.

>> and now it works the way I want it.
>
> Congtratulations. I was not critisizing [with a "z", see other thread] you,
> just explaining the the working of this NG.
>
>> Looking into such a script is leerzaam indeed!
>
> More than once, we see newbees in this NG starting with solutions made in
> the late 1990's for antiquated versions of Javascript, css and the DOM.
>
> Starting to learn with these van be quite detrimental to the sanity of a
> programmer and to the understanding of present day browsers cum script-
> engines.
>
> A stern warning is the best we can do in these cases.
>

Well, thanks for the stern warning.
But anyway, I got my ancient Javascript running!
And I'm quite pleased with it.

Fokke