Re: pages hanging in Netscape 4.6

They all loaded fine in NS 4.7 for me. One problem might be the excessive
use of nested tables and preloaded images. On dialup this causes a lot of
request headers to be sent to the server which, because of the way Netscape
caches, can cause problems, especially if you resize. You might want to see
if you can move to an image map for the calendar and skip all those
mouseovers and calls in that area.

Also, it seems to me that you're using Dreamweaver 3.0 instead of 4.0. That
preload script won't work well in Netscape of any version and is not HTML
4.0 complaint.. (mm_preloadimages) but in any event, it doesn't seem to be
implemented correctly here. (see body tag suggestion, below)

My validator showed a parsing error on line #35: Improper tag syntax; extra
character(s):(moviechannel/Images/buttons/committee_rl.gifmoviechannel/sugge
stions_rl.gifmoviechannel/review_rl.gifmoviechannel/filmlist_rl.gifmoviechan
nel/schedule_rl.gifmoviechannel/home_rl.gif
background="../../Images/bg_buck.jpg"
onLoad="MM_preloadImages('../../Images/buttons/schedule_rl.gif','../../Image
s/buttons/filmlist_rl.gif','../../Images/buttons/committee_rl.gif','../../Im
ages/buttons/suggestions_rl.gif','../../Images/buttons/review_rl.gif','../..
/Images/buttons/home_rl.gif','../../Images/buttons/units_rl.gif','../../Imag
es/buttons/cable_rl.gif','../../Images/buttons/info_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_01_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_02_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_03_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_04_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_05_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_06_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_07_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_08_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_09_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_10_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_11_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_12_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_13_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_14_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_15_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_16_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_17_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_18_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_19_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_20_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_21_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_22_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_23_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_24_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_25_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_26_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_27_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_28_rl.gif','../../Images/ca
lendar/cal_29_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_30_rl.gif')"','#98994854129
8')"

 I think you need a name attribute here:   at the second comma, if I'm not
mistaken...
29_rl.gif','../../Images/calendar/cal_30_rl.gif')"','#989948541298')"> ...

script language="JavaScript" is also incorrect. It should be script
type="text/javascript" though Dreamweaver does do it wrong... not your
fault.

You need to add a doctype. It's required to be proper HTML.

Try W3C validation at: http://www.w3c.org

*** The whole thing might be fixed by changing the body tag from:
MM_preloadImages
to: onLoad="MM_preloadImages

Looks good so far. Good luck in your endeavor.

Craig T. Harding BS MS- Association of Computing Machinery ACM
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers IEEE
President - GuideNet, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: <welch(at)units.ohio-state.edu>
To: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: pages hanging in Netscape 4.6

> Hi. I know these pages are not perfect (I'm working on them), but I don't
> see why some of them are loading okay in Explorer and not in Netscape.
> If anyone can offer any insight, I would appreciate it.
>
http://www.units.ohio-state.edu/moviechannel/Schedule/next_month/index.html
> Diane Welch

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