Netscape 4.76 -- page loads *very* slowly

[vickilh]

I'm currently revamping a website and hoping to use the Milonic menu. I currently have version 5.0 rc 50.
It works great in IE and Mozilla/Netscape 7. But it takes a page forever (well, up to a minute) to load in Netscape 4.76. -- Is this a known problem? Or is there something I've done to cause the problem, -- something I could do to remedy the problem?

Here is a sample page:
http://nursing.unc.edu/test/new/undergrad2.html

My menu javascript data file for this is at:
http://nursing.unc.edu/test/new/menu/2p ... nu_data.js

Many thanks! Vicki

[John]

I don't have anything that far back to try - sorry. One of the other folks probably does. 4.76 is ancient stuff, but your menu isn't that tough.

Are you using that function at the end of your _data file in the menu itself (didn't see it on a quick scan)? If not I'd suggest putting it in its own file, or directly into the HTML.

Also, you're a bit down-level. The current version is 5.03 release.

[vickilh]

Hi John,
thanks for your reply! .. What function are you talking about?
thx, Vicki

[John]

thanks for your reply! .. What function are you talking about?

At the end of your _data file, after the drawMenus();, you have...

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function mapwin() {
theWin = window.open ("http://nursing.unc.edu/map/mapframe.html",...}etc.

(Snipped to keep the window in check!)

[Maz]

I'm not sure what John is talking about, but there is some function after drawmenus()

You will probably be needing a /slash before the paths.

maz

[vickilh]

I've taken the mapWin function out of the menu_data file and put it in the html. That doesn't seem to have made any difference in the loading speed.

..Maz, -I'm not sure what you mean -- that I need a slash before the paths. (which paths?)

thanks! vicki

[John]

Sorry. Didn't mean to imply it would help the problem, just that it shouldn't be there.

[Maz]

All your paths including images, tells it to always go back to the root, for when you start using subdirectories.

src="menu/milonic_src.js"

src="/menu/milonc_src.js"

maz

[vickilh]

Oh yeah .. all the paths will change when this heads into production.

-- I just wonder what's making this so slow. If I use the Netscape 4.76 browser to go to the Milonic site, with their menus, it's not super-speedy, but the load time is acceptable. I noticed that they put the menu_data info in the HTML body, so I tried that, but no difference in speed.

Very odd. Why would Milonic's site -- which looks similar -- be faster? I don't think it's the web servers -- the one here is probably several servers strung together doing load-sharing - it's very fast for other browsers.

thx again, Vicki

[tepidarium]

I don't know if you can get the menu to load any faster in netscape 4.x - I have had the smae problems, still do.