RE: window.status in mouseover

Hello John,

I had a quick look at your page in IE5 and Netscape 4.

The problem you are having IS related to the absence of preloading.  When
the onMouseOver event is triggered, the browser must load the image.  In
Netscape, this causes the status bar text to be overwritten with the loading
progress, which is ended by "Document: Done".

Internet Explorer continues to show your status text, without overwriting
with the loading status.

It seems that the only way to fix the problem that is seen in Netscape is to
preload the images.

Hope this helps,

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of John Allred
> Sent: 16 April 2000 15:47
> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: window.status in mouseover
>
>
> I hope I have a question with a simple answer. I have an include file
> (for common navigation) that contains mouseover images. For each
> onmouseover and each onmouseout event, I set the window status text.
> However, the first time I roll my mouse over the image, I see
> "Document
> Done" in the status window. The second rollover for the same image
> produces the desired text. You can test it, if you like, at
> http://www.mscounties.com/links.cfm?ID=01.
>
> I'm wondering if this behavior is somehow connected to my not
> preloading
> the images (the included file is rendered by several
> different pages, so
> I didn't attempt to preload).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,
> John Allred
>

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