More questions

by David Kendall <david(at)homepagesplus.com>

 Date:  Thu, 06 May 2004 17:47:15 -0500
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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Hello everyone.  Again, I hope you're not sick of me yet!  :)

A few minor, but, I feel, relatively important, things on the page that 
I'm working on (currently at http://david.national-anthems.net/)

When loading the index page, or any of the anthem pages (the ones 
beginning with "A" are done and up), the table of contents loads in 
an internal frame (thanks again to whoever it was on this list who 
suggested that).  However, when I checked the page at work (my 
day job work), it takes quite a while to load the page, and all 300+ 
contents of the table of contents has to have the bullet graphic 
loaded (part of the collapsible table of contents script I'm using).  
However, this doesn't appear to be the case when I load the page 
from home.  Both are Windows machines running Windows 98, so I 
woder why my work comuter has to load those graphics, and 
displays the message "Loading bullet.gif" or whatever, counting 
down how many t's loading from 300+ to "Done".  Does it appear 
this way on yorus too?

Also, I'm thinking it would be nice to find a way to disable left-click 
on one graphic only.  If you go to any (or almost any) anthem page 
(provided it's one of the ones that begin with "A" you'll notice one 
link for viewing and one for downloading.  I currently have a floating 
window whenever a mouse hovers over the download button, telling 
people the instructions to download, so they right-click and "save 
target as", rather than left click, which is probably the most intuitive 
action for most surfers.  If there was a way to just activate a java 
alert whever that button is left-clicked, and left-clicking would be 
allowed on the view/listen" button, that would be grand.  (I do know 
how to disable left clicks on the entire page, but not for one button.)

That is all.  Thanks in advance.
 
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