IE 5.5 on NT4

[seang@space.net.au]

Hi there,

Same problem (not just NT)

I set the padding to 2 and it looked great in IE6 and all NS that I have...however in IE5 (well 5.5) it cut the first ~5 pixels off the front of the submenu (drop down) - thus chopping the first letter of each item off....

I would prefer not to set the padding to 4 or greater as it looks a little spaced out...

http://www.younggunswa.com/staging/grd/

I tested it with the zipped example just see if I had the settings OK...same problem but not quite as obvious due to the colours. And the last menu item, 'other', with the 'effect' worked???

Any ideas.

Cheers
Sean

[pquinn@sempra.com]

Just checking in to see if there has been a resolution to this problem. I have the same issue with IE 5.5 on NT4. Thanks in advance.

Best,
Patrick

[yadin]

Hopefully Andy can reproduce this, I have not seen this issue occur. I have checked the site listed by Sean and see no problem.
Regards,
Yadin

[Andy]

Happens to me on IE 5.5 w/ Win98.
All the computers in my school district have this config

[ikalair@hotmail.com]

I've also experienced this problem. It works fine with IE 5.0 and IE 6.0 but there appears to be a clipping problem with IE 5.5. I've seen this problem on Win98 and Win2000 (the only two platforms i tested).

[Andy]

It's related to the effects.

There is a bug in IE5.5 when you use Fade, Drop Shadow and Alpha.

You can try removing the Alpha effect and see if that helps

-- Andy

[seang@space.net.au]

Thanks Andy,

That's done it...shame I like the fade effect.

Just a note not anyone who is interested if you put the cell padding up to about 6 (or at least greater that 4) it is not so noticable.

Thanks

Sean

[seang@space.net.au]

So a work around could be............

ie5_5=(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE 5.5")!=-1)?true:false
alert(navigator.userAgent)
if(ie5_5){
effect = "Fade(duration=0.3);Shadow(color='#999999', Direction=135, Strength=5)" // Special effect string for IE5.5 or above please visit http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/filters_sample.php for more filters
}else{
effect = "Fade(duration=0.3);Alpha(style=0,opacity=100);Shadow(color='#999999', Direction=135, Strength=5)"
}

replacing the
effect = "Fade(duration=0.3);Alpha(style=0,opacity=100);Shadow(color='#999999', Direction=135, Strength=5)" // Special effect string for IE5.5 or above please visit http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/filters_sample.php for more filters

This also could be done serverside.

[seang@space.net.au]

Oops not with the alert but still there!

Sorry

Sean

[Andy]

Yeah, that's what we do now. I'll get some code put together later and post it up.

-- Andy

[John]

Hi Andy,

Just a reminder of the problem with IE5.5 on NT4 in which the menu left and top edges experience a strange clipping problem. Hopefully, it can be addressed in a near-term release.
Thanks
Andre