Re: Netscape image stretching problem

yeah, I had a feeling that it wasn't going to be fixable "as is" in 
Netscape. I've decided to try redoing the images as transparent gifs, all 
the same size, with everything outside of the "viewable" areas transparent. 
I put a couple out there already and they look ok. It'll about triple the 
size of the images, but they're not all that big to begin with. Thanks for 
the help!

At 09:58 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:


>Keith Wasserman wrote:
>
> > I have a JavaScript slideshow (copy/pasted from another site) that looks
> > fine in IE 5, but looks horrible in Netscape 4.7x. It seems to me that
> > Netscape caches the pixel height for the first image in the slideshow, then
> > either stretches or shrinks the following images to conform to that height.
> > This makes for some really ugly images if they happen to be significantly
> > different in height to the first image, and I'd rather not have to resize
> > all of my images to make them the all same height. Can this be fixed in
> > HTML, or is this a congenital defect in Netscape? Or is this maybe a
> > JavaScript problem (I haven't learned enough about it yet to tell) that
> > only shows up in Netscape? The page was hand coded in Homesite, so it's not
> > a WYSIWYG editor problem.
> >
> > Any ideas...?
> >
> > Here's the page in
> > question:  http://members.evolt.org/syzygyzm/everglades/0326-ss.html
>
>Unlike IE, Netscape 4 and older had no capabilities for substituting different
>sized content after the page has been laid out. I'm sure you've noticed IE
>reflowing pages now and then - for example, if you don't specify the image
>size, IE goes ahead and lays out the rest of the page, and then moves things
>around when it receives the image and learns the size. Netscape, on the other
>hand, simply doesn't display the remainder of the page until it knows how 
>large
>the image is.
>
>Sorry, Netscape 4 can't change the image size in a slide show of this nature.
>You'd have to do something like putting the various images in separate layers
>and toggle the layers on and off. Or use frames and completely reload the 
>frame
>that contains the slide show. Or I imagine there are other ways, but probably
>none that are terribly easy.
>
>Larry Coats

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