Internet Explorer JavaScript Weirdness

[Prisoner at War]

<SNIP b/c I'd said I won't comment on "top-posting" anymore in this thread (would look like I'm "arguing" even though I'm not!>

That said, I've rarely seen a group of more stuck up self satisfied
arrogant prigs in one place. I first subscribed a fortnight ago to
this newsgroup in the hope of getting help. Having read the level of
"help" I might get, I decided to abandon any attempt. I don't want to
be insulted, condescended to or treated like all kinds of a moron,
simply because I don't HAPPEN to understand Javascript as well as they
do. It doesn't make me dumb, lazy or stupid, merely ignorant, and
being treated as some retarded imbecile doesn't cure my ignorance.

I must say, I actually did get help with my JavaScript questions,
right from the start, so I'm very surprised by your experience! I was
actually afraid of the treatment you actually had, since it seems de
rigeur for usenet to give newbies or even just newcomers to a group
the "hazing" treatment -- but people have been totally helpful right
from the start.

That's so weird...people are so strange, I think when we finally have
a thinking machine it will be built by other machines, not by a
human....

 

[Prisoner at War]

<SNIP>

Grow up, use your own name, get some respectable software, let your
present reputation be forgotten, and you may then reasonably hope for
favourable attention.

I think part of being a grown-up is not worrying about "names" and
"brands" ("respectable software") and "reputation" and "favorable
attention"...seriously, it's amazing how many "grown-ups" act like
children, only with more elaborate outward forms to display.
Honestly, just look at the world, and how it's **all** about show and
outward appearance -- AND PEOPLE DON'T EVEN REALIZE IT!

As long as you care about conventions, your mind remains conventional,
no matter what new conventions you might come up with.

So not only top-posting, but a "real name" and "respectable software"
and a "good reputation"...ach, how does anyone expect society to
change if people keep living by the same rules??

I think the whole promise of the internet is precisely its potentially
"anarchical" nature...in life, people might not ever bother helping
each other because of appearances...here, physical appearances are set
aside but the "programming class" of "appearances" still have their
old effects, only on other "variables" now....

Tsk, tsk!

 

[Prisoner at War]

You *are* arguing against a convention that has been established for
decades, long before this newsgroup and its topic existed. In itself
that's fine, but people here like to be on topic. In other words, take
it to whatever newsgroup is about these kind of discussions. As mr
Stockton noted, deliberately frustrating the general mechanisms of
debate on this group is juveline. It's also harmful in that now
everybody is spending time explaining how juvenile you are behaving (or
at least reading the off-topic posts about this stupid discussion) while
they could have been discussing / reading about the topic of this
group. Or having sex / a nice meal / whatever.

That is a specious charge: anyone who would answer me can see that
others already have, so for them to decide to add their own answers
*duplicating* what's already been said isn't my fault. Look at how
few answers my JavaScript questions received. Now where were all
these helpful souls then??

So it's not that I'm taking people off-topic; it's that they have
decided that an off-topic post is more worthy of their time than my on-
topic ones!

This is not to say that I don't appreciate people's time; but we are
all responsible for our own posts and the time it takes to make them,
so this old canard about how a newbie is messing things up for old-
timers by asking FAQ-covered questions, or off-topic questions, etc.,
is just misleading.

 

[Prisoner at War]

Me, troll?

You're the one with pointed ears, after all!

You what's really sad?

Bad enough you have such a small mind...but you spend your time trying
to turn others against me, too.


Wow, just how insecure can you be??