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web programming peoples: help!

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Hi peeps,

I just spent a couple of hours updating and spiffying up my personal website. Content is not quite done but the layout is pretty much the way I want it.

Trouble is, I have these old "hover" buttons on my home page. I rather like them, but the latest version of IE chokes on them. I assume they are not IE-compliant.

I'm not much of a coder -- all of my html is old and shitty, and I haven't a clue whether these buttons can be salvaged or not. Does anyone know how to fix my page so that the hover buttons will load in IE?

As much as I'd like to see everyone using Firefox (and yes, the page seems to load in Firefox) I just can't live with the idea that my homepage is inaccessible to all those misguided people who use IE...

Here's the offending page:

Thanks in advance for your help, peeps.
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💬 6 comments

  1. jenks ·

    what, no link to estrip? We're offended. ;)
    (works ok in safari, btw. the buttons don't hover, but clicking them works.)

  2. jenks ·

    p.s. happy new year, missed you guys at the party.

  3. mrmike ·

    New IE liked it, but I've become a Firefox fan of late. IE is just there on my windows like a wet sock on a shower rod.

  4. joshua ·

    Troubleshooting for multiple browsers - every programmers favorite task!

  5. paul ·

    The reason that it doesn't work has to do with a patent lawsuit that forced microsoft to add a separate click activation to any external media plugin that displays "rich media" on a page and is embedded through html tags. The roll overs work if you hover over them and then click to activate first in IE. IE had to implement this when they lost a lawuit against Eolas. You can read more about it here :::link:::

    To make this work you need to use rollovers that are not java applets. In fact I would say it is never a good idea to have your main navigation rely on external applications such as javas applets. If the user does not have java installe don their system, the links would just show up as blank boxes and there would be no way for them to reach your main navigation pages.

    Basically each one of your rollovers is a separate java application embedded on the page. This also slows the rendering of the page down greatly. I would just drop the roll over all together and go with a simple css rollover.

    To make it easy, I re-wrote and emailed the page for you as standard XHTML and included a graphic file image needed to make the buttons work as CSS rollovers. If you have any questions email me. You shoudl just be able to replace your page with the index.htm I sent you and include the bg.jpg file in your site folder with the other graphics you have. Once it is on there the pictures will show up.

  6. jenks ·

    paul you're too awesome. that was so nice!

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