2002 Hover Button problems

[Guest]

I have recently published a website using Frontpage 2002 in which I have used
the hover button feature (dark blue background w/ white lettering with the
light glow effect). Everything works fine on my system but a customer tried
to use it and said some of the buttons turned dark shades of gray and were no
longer functional.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this perplexing problem?

Kristin

 

[Steve Easton]

Hover buttons require that Java Virtual Machine ( not to be confused with javascript ) be installed
on every computer that views the web page.
New computers with Windows XP and IE 6 do not come with JVM installed due to a Sun Micro lawsuit
against Microsoft.

For this reason most web developers have stopped using Hover Buttons and use dhtml image swaps.

JVM can be downloaded and installed from http://java.sun.com/

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[E. T. Culling]

See this list of things like Hover buttons to avoid using:
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=29

Eleanor

 

[ah]

I used FrontPage 2003 interactive buttons and I am not
thrilled with the result. When I click on an interactive
button, the text that was on it just disappears.

-----Original Message-----
Hover buttons require that Java Virtual Machine ( not to

be confused with javascript ) be installed

on every computer that views the web page.
New computers with Windows XP and IE 6 do not come with

JVM installed due to a Sun Micro lawsuit

against Microsoft.

For this reason most web developers have stopped using

Hover Buttons and use dhtml image swaps.

 

[Ronx]

Interactive buttons are just image swaps, so if the text on the button
disappears, it means the text is not visible on the new button being loaded.
Can you give a URL to a page where this happens?

Ron

 

[ah]

Not only the text disappears but the whole button. All
that's left is the backgroung. This only with Explorer,
not with Netscape. With Netscape nothing disappears but
the button does not change colour or shape. It does not
look interactive.

 

[Ronx]

I think I got to the new site, with pics of guitar and piano.
I see nothing wrong in IE6 or Firefox 0.9. When moused over the buttons
gain a border, when pressed they get lighter.

I do not have any version of Netscape on this PC, but I would expect NN4.xx
to ignore the interactivity as you have seen.

FYI the page gives a bottom scroll bar in a browser opened at 800x600.
This is probably caused by the tables set at 800px width - should be 760px
for 800x600 windows.

Ron

 

[ah]

Thank you for testing. I think that I may have this
disappearing button problem because and use a dialup
(slow) connection (I am away from home) and everything
takes a looong time to appear on my screen.

What is confusing is that when I test with FrontPage in
my computer, even with Netscape it is interactive.

Thank you for telling me about the bottom scroll bar. I
did not know that my website had to be 760 instead of
800. Too late for this one. I shall know for the next
one.

 

[Ronx]

I will check with my other machine tomorrow morning (about 15 hours from
now). That has several versions of Netscape to choose from.

It is likely that later versions will interact, but not NN4.

Ron

 

[ah]

I have Netscape 7.1

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ah
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I will check with my other machine tomorrow morning (about 15 hours from
now). That has several versions of Netscape to choose from.

It is likely that later versions will interact, but not NN4.

Ron

 

[Ronx]

Netscape 4.08 Display OK No interaction (as expected)
Netscape 6.2 Display OK Interactive, but when clicked the image
disappears until next page loads. This is a browser problem.
Netscape 7.1 Display OK Interactive
Opera 7.23 Display OK Interactive
Mozilla 1.6, Konqueror 3.1 Display OK Interactive
Galeon 1.2.7 Display: buttons OK, body text too small for comfort and
could not be adjusted enough (though the main banner became huge). Buttons
are Interactive

Galeon is a Linux browser, and I have never seen it in any of my website
logs. IMO not worth worrying about.
Konqueror is also a Linux browser, but is used occasionally.

Ron

 

[ah]

Ron



Thank you so much for all this. If I can be of any help any day please do
not hesitate to ask. You can reach me at (e-mail address removed) Domainname is
of course the one you tested.



ah

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