Netscape 7.1 does it work with the menu?

gary04450 · Post by **gary04450** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:38 pm

Ok...I am going to place this in the Anything Goes Forum.

I can still see the Milonic link on my menu? I thought there was code embedded into the evaluation copy of the menu that looks for a link pointing to http://milonic.com/ on web pages using the menu. If it finds the link included within the HTML of your website, the menu doesn't add any links to the menu as it did before.

In Explorer 6 the link does not appear and all looks OK

test URL is http://www.stalbansmaine.com/test/index.html

One user wrote to me this information....

I think it may be a bug and you should report it. It happens in netscape 6, 7.1, and firebird.07 also. It doesn't happen in netscape 4.79 [that uses the mmenuns4.js file]. So, I'd assume it has something to do with the mmenudom.js file. I did find that if I eliminated all the menu coding netscape is writing to the page for the section you have in the table the problem disappeared, but not knowing programming I don't know if that really is a fix.

Anyone know what I am doing wrong...or is the a bug?

Thanks,

Gary

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:54 pm

Hi Gary,

I think that others are likely to run into the same situation, and they'll be more likely to find this thread in the Help foum. So, I'm going to move this to the Help forum (hope you don't mind).

The good news is that it's not a bug. I recall seeing this before in NS7. The directions on the Milonic home page for eliminating the forced MILONIC link indicate that the link to milonic.com

...needs to point to the precise location of http://milonic.com/

The href in your link is missing the / at the end.

Hope that helps,

Kevin

gary04450 · Post by **gary04450** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:04 pm

I am going to check into this! I'll let you know how I make out!

Thanks!!!

gary04450 · Post by **gary04450** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:36 pm

Thanks Kevin!

That is what it was!!!

Gary

rww · Post by **rww** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:32 pm

kevin3442 wrote:Hi Gary,

The directions on the Milonic home page for eliminating the forced MILONIC link indicate that the link to milonic.com
...needs to point to the precise location of http://milonic.com/
The href in your link is missing the / at the end.

It's not missing on my pages (http://www.mayorgracia.org) and I still get MILONIC as the first item when viewing with Firebird.

Thanks.
RWW

Post by **John** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:55 pm

I don't have that browser to look at your page, but, as you said, your link is correct. This will be an Andy thing.

gary04450 · Post by **gary04450** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:07 pm

It works fine in FIREFOX

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:04 pm

Hi rww,

Another potental cause of this behavior is the timing of when things load on the page (I've seen this twice). If the menu renders and checks for the required link before the required link is loaded from the html, then it's as if the link doesn't exist. You could try moving your menu definitions (I notice they're in the html file) down toward the bottom of the body, so that the menu_data code is after your link to milonic.com. You might even try loading the base scripts at the bottom of the body, before your menu_data code. That way, the link is sure to exist when the menu code is processed. If nothing else, that would rule out the timing issue.

Hope that helps,

Kevin

rww · Post by **rww** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:02 am

Moveing the menu definitions to the bottom of the page did fix the problem in Firebird. (BTW I don't have them directly in the html of the page, rather as a php include since nearly all of the menu contents are dynamically generated.) However, there is another problem. In IE, the division that holds all the content is centered on the page, but in Firebird it's left aligned. The rule for sorting this out is to try to get the page to validate properly, but because of the way that some of the Milonic javascript is written I'm having trouble getting rid of all the validation errors and keeping the menus working.

Any ideas on how to sort this out?

Thanks.
RWW

Post by **Ruth** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:07 am

I have firebird .07 and it's centered if you mean the floating menu bar? As to the other, I don't know about xhtml and such so can't even look to see what's what

Ruth

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:13 pm

rww wrote:...However, there is another problem. In IE, the division that holds all the content is centered on the page, but in Firebird it's left aligned....

I'm wondering if I'm missing something or if you've made a recent change. I see the page left aligned in IE6/Win2k. Have you decided to go left?

Kevin

rww · Post by **rww** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:43 pm

Huh?? I'm using the same setup on my machine and it's definitely centered in a 17" monitor at 1024x768 resolution.

Anyone else seeing it in IE not centered? Matter of fact, I figured out that putting <table align="center"> bracketting the framework division also centers it in Firebird, at least on my machine. You may have caught if for a couple of minutes when it was up with the table tags, but without the cetner align property.

Thanks.
RWW

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