[thelist] Email server needed and critique

jayanth,

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: From: isaac forman <isaac@members.evolt.org>
:
: the "javascript courtesy of" line is unprofessional. maybe
: try and hide it within a more elaborate footer? (ie, copyright
: line or whatever else).
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ditto.  if any credit is given, it should be in an html comment within the
source and not out on the page itself.

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: perhaps dump the webmonkey script and use jeff's
: kickarse rollover code (with preloading of course) - i'm
: sure he'll be happy to pass it your way, and settle for an
: in-code credit (sorry to put you on the spot jeff :).
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isaac, no, you didn't put me on the spot at all.  i would make the same
recommendation too as i don't like the webmonkey way of doing it.  their
code is WAY too complex and practically makes my eyes bleed trying to
decipher it.  i can't even imagine how scary it must look to someone that
doesn't have much javascript experience.  even worse is that the webmonkey
code doesn't directly reference image objects meaning that even if you've
preloaded them, they won't necessarily use the version in the cache but
instead try to download them again to execute the image swap.  you can tell
that this is what's happening on your page even though you're using their
preload function as well.  i've addressed all of this with my version of the
preload and image swap functions.  you can find a working example to view
the source of here:

http://members.evolt.org/jeff/code/preload_n_rollover/

if you search thelist archive for a message about preloading images from
about 2 weeks ago or less you'll find a long detailed post about how this
works and also how the rollOver() function works.  email me offlist if you
can't find it.

good luck,

.jeff

name://jeff.howden
game://web.development
http://www.evolt.org/
mailto:jeff@members.evolt.org