Re: Drop Down Menus
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 42160
interpreted = N
texte = Thanks Donovan, and perhaps I should reconsider.To this point, I have focused primarily on MSIE, and thought very little about NN. It seems to be too much trouble than it's worth, but of course there are things that happen now and then that make me ponder my choices.This is something I look at quite often: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/bstats/latest.html Maybe some of you will find it useful as well.I will definitely look around the site you mentioned and again, thanks for the info.Kim-----Original Message----- From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf Of Donovan Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:41 AM To: WebCatalog Talk Subject: Re: Drop Down MenusRobert, Most of the new rules for the cascading stylsheets were developed after netscape 4.x stopped being developed so style sheet intesive sites will most likely always hang up Netscape 4.x browsers. Unfortunately when netscape sold there business, they left a lot of good ideas and customers hanging me thinks.Glad to see I'm not the only one that can't let go! ;-)DonovanKim, if, by chance, you did want to make 4.x compatible for your site there is a JS fix for your (so called DHTML (never understood why they termed these drop downs as dynamic html)) dropdowns. www.projectseven.com has the DreamWeaver extension but if you want just the Java Script code I should be able to find it.cheers, Donovan Robert Wade wrote:> This happened with with MacOS 9.4 - Netscape Navigator 4.7x > > When the page loads, this pops into the location field of the browser: > http://www.fauxefficient.com/products/styles.inc > > Then I get the following in the window.... > > HTTP Error 404 > > 404 Not Found > > The Web server cannot find the file or script you asked for. Please check the URL > to ensure that the path is correct. > > Please contact the server's administrator if this problem persists. > > I also noticed that your mast head graphics were out of alignment. Probably some > bad table syntax. I took a screen shot for you which you can see at > http://www.outboundcreative.com/faux.jpg > > Another thing which I see on this browser (and it might just be this one) is that > your tiled background is so small and made up of so many pieces that it takes a > very long time to load. You may consider building a larger tile, so it wouldn't > have to load so many times. From what I can tell, that tile is only 1x2 pixels... > If you were to build it at about 600 x 50 with only the two colors used, it would > make the page load much faster. Again this problem may only be with this browser > configuration. > > Hope this helps! > > -Robert >-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------<><> Donovan Brooke <><>->ï ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Thanks Donovan, and perhaps I should reconsider.To this point, I have focused primarily on MSIE, and thought very little about NN. It seems to be too much trouble than it's worth, but of course there are things that happen now and then that make me ponder my choices.This is something I look at quite often: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/bstats/latest.html Maybe some of you will find it useful as well.I will definitely look around the site you mentioned and again, thanks for the info.Kim-----Original Message----- From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf Of Donovan Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:41 AM To: WebCatalog Talk Subject: Re: Drop Down MenusRobert, Most of the new rules for the cascading stylsheets were developed after netscape 4.x stopped being developed so style sheet intesive sites will most likely always hang up Netscape 4.x browsers. Unfortunately when netscape sold there business, they left a lot of good ideas and customers hanging me thinks.Glad to see I'm not the only one that can't let go! ;-)DonovanKim, if, by chance, you did want to make 4.x compatible for your site there is a JS fix for your (so called DHTML (never understood why they termed these drop downs as dynamic html)) dropdowns. www.projectseven.com has the DreamWeaver extension but if you want just the Java Script code I should be able to find it.cheers, Donovan Robert Wade wrote:> This happened with with MacOS 9.4 - Netscape Navigator 4.7x > > When the page loads, this pops into the location field of the browser: > http://www.fauxefficient.com/products/styles.inc > > Then I get the following in the window.... > > HTTP Error 404 > > 404 Not Found > > The Web server cannot find the file or script you asked for. Please check the URL > to ensure that the path is correct. > > Please contact the server's administrator if this problem persists. > > I also noticed that your mast head graphics were out of alignment. Probably some > bad table syntax. I took a screen shot for you which you can see at > http://www.outboundcreative.com/faux.jpg > > Another thing which I see on this browser (and it might just be this one) is that > your tiled background is so small and made up of so many pieces that it takes a > very long time to load. You may consider building a larger tile, so it wouldn't > have to load so many times. From what I can tell, that tile is only 1x2 pixels... > If you were to build it at about 600 x 50 with only the two colors used, it would > make the page load much faster. Again this problem may only be with this browser > configuration. > > Hope this helps! > > -Robert >-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------<><> Donovan Brooke <><>->ï ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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