Re: msdn scripting information


"mr_unreliable" <kindlyReplyToNewsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Paul Randall wrote:
I use msdn.microsoft.com as my starting point for searching for scripting
info from Microsoft. I use IE6. Recently it seems that the styling of
this web site is wasting a significant portion of my screen space.

Paul, assuming ms is not willing to "snap-to" and fix
their website to your liking (doubtful), then you can
fix-it-yourself.

You can retrieve the page (either with xmlHTTP's methods,
or just an ordinary "NavigateTo"), and then take out the
header (or anything else) by writing a script (in the
onLoad event) to use css or dhtml to either hide the
offending elements, or to simply delete them.

cheers, jw

I once tried to write a style*** and set up IE to use it to override the
header style that bother me, but was only partially successful. But they
changed their style, I think. With respect to the two inches of white space
at the bottom on pages like
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms675032(VS.85).aspx, I thought my
style changed might have been a cause since I'm a CSS neophyte. It turns
out that on a newly installed WXP, I see the same effect in its IE6. Do you
see this effect on your systems?

If it looks like this will be a long term thing, then maybe I will load the
web page in a VBScripted instance of IE and dynamically delete IE tags that
cause these silly effects.

Thanks for your input,

-Paul Randall


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