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CrAzY
New Member
USA
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 Posted - 13 March 2001 : 16:21:24
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I'm having a lot of problems with my site in Netscape.
I've realized that Netscape chooses to download all of the images and all of the content before it displays anything, causing Netscape to act like it's locked up and crashed, when in fact it's just loading everything, but users don't understand/know that. And I have a front page that has quite a few graphics to get past.
Is there any script or way to force Netscape to load certain sections and display them before continuing to get the rest?
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RaiderUK
Average Member
United Kingdom
577 Posts |
Posted - 13 March 2001 : 19:16:07
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the best thing to do when
using netscape is to take the nearest heavy
object and repeatedly hit yourself round the
head with it.
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CrAzY
New Member
USA
50 Posts |
Posted - 13 March 2001 : 19:33:15
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Yeah .. I'm aware of that solution .. I've also tried a few Hail Mary's too ...
But it's difficult to relay such issues to users visiting the site.
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Dan Martin
Average Member
USA
528 Posts |
Posted - 14 March 2001 : 14:08:29
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Change your first page to this:
<%
If browser=Netscape Then
Response.Redirect("http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download")
Else
'Insert the rest of your website here
%>
Okay, enough bashing Netscape. At one point, Netscape was ahead of its time. Then the developers went to lunch.
My site does not have these same Netscape issues you mention, so I think there are solutions. Tables will never load until all the data is available for the table.
One thing I would suggest, if you haven't done so already, is to take every image and graphical object (including any flash elements) and explicitly size them.
<img src=myPic.jpg height=240 width=180>
This doesn't have to, but should match the actual size of your image (in pixels). You can force an image to display at a different size than the actual image, but I wouldn't suggest it.
Also, if you would, provide us the link to your site, and some of us can take a look and give further pointers.
Good luck,
Dan
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CrAzY
New Member
USA
50 Posts |
Posted - 14 March 2001 : 14:59:49
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I don't deny that Netscape was ahead of it's time, in fact I was a strong supporter of Netscape for quite some time, but it just seems like they've really slacked lately.
Anyways, I'll try some of the resizing bits, but some of the images are backgrounds, and from what I know, I don't think you explicitily size background images in tables.
Here's a link to the site - Nokturnal.Net
If you can figure out what the problem is, please let me know, I also thought there was a way to force Netscape to load certain things at a time and displaying them before continuing to load the rest.
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Kristabel
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 March 2001 : 06:03:20
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I am 110% with you on this. I have had nothing but trouble with Netscape, especially where css and DHTML are concerned!
I first used the internet at University and Netscape was the browser that was provided there. It seems ok until you start coding web pages that have to be compatible with it!
And now there is the added problem of browser compatibility with Netscape 6 as well! As if getting NS4 to work wasn't enough in itself!!!
I think I will promise myself a huge party when Netscape finally works how it is supposed to!!! 
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Reinsnitz
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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Posted - 15 March 2001 : 10:11:20
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or AOL drops it completely.
Reinsnitz (Mike)
><)))'> Need a Mod?
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,..." Matthew 28:19a |
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