gmonkey42

Jun. 28th, 2005

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SF Chronicle article: LOSING WEIGHT IS BAD FOR YOU

Finally, a study proving what we've suspected all along. Of course, the diet industry and the "researchers" in its pocket are going to accuse this study of having the same flaws in method that their own work has. And there are still going to be articles saying "everyone knows being fat is bad for you therefore we're not going to back it up with anything and instead focus on the effects of illnesses that we blame on fat even though there's no good evidence to support it." You know why the studies claiming that fat is bad get the results they do (apart from deliberate distortion)? Because fat people are more likely to have been on weight-loss diets! The vast majority of dieters (doctors admit that it's something like 95%) gain back all the weight and then some. They get chronic diseases from dieting, not from being fat! The only reason why most people won't accept this obvious conclusion is because fat has replaced dark skin as the thing about which it's still OK to be prejudiced.

But the tide is, gradually, turning.

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kissmyass_cosmo

I'm putting in tags now. Reading back over my older entries, I'm dismayed to find a lot of typos. I do usually proofread my posts and I honestly don't see them then. "Like" in place of "link" is one I do a lot. And I'll hit 'n' instead of 'b.' Curses.

Is it better to do a bunch of nested tables or to use colspan and rowspan? I know a bunch of nested tables can be bad for older browsers but are there any known problems with browsers not recognizing colspan and rowspan?

Why isn't this working? All I want to do is have an expanding menu and it's straightforward enough but it keeps saying "Object doesn't support this property or method" when I try to use getElementByID. But I have IE6 and I know it works with the DOM because the same thing works for me on other pages, just not mine.

I got just about the simplest example I could find and it still doesn't work. What's wrong with it?

<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function ChangeTitle(){
var newtitle = document.form1.newtitle.value;
var changeme = document.getElementByID("head1");
changeme.firstChild.nodeValue = newtitle;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="head1">Dynamic Heading<
<br>
<form name="form1">
<input type="text" name="newtitle">
<input type="button" value="Change!" onClick="ChangeTitle();">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Jun. 28th, 2005

Jun. 28th, 2005

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