[thelist] Ok, I need input on a web site using a G3 Mac..

[Greg Strange]

on 7/11/00 12:40 PM, Mark Van Baale at mark at geonetric.com wrote:

> First, in IE on a G3 processor Mac, when you mouseover the Why T&K? button
> on the left, a popup menu shows up. The menu supposedly is positioned lower
> on the screen.

I have a G3 processor (iMac DV and PowerBook G3 Bronze) with OS 9.0 and 9.04
respectively.  IE 5 and NN 4.73 as the browsers on both machines.  800x600
and 1024x768 respectively.  The above issue is confirmed in this setup.

> It should line up with the Emergency button link, but it does
> not. The client mentioned also that the menu has a transparent look to it
> and you cannot use any of the links when you mouseover the links.

However, I could use the links; although in IE, it took forever for the
green text to appear when mousing over the menu and the cascading menus were
only working in NN.  Don't know if that is intended to give leeway to
differing browser functions.

> Second, in Netscape on a G3 Mac, the pop-up menu that is supposed to only
> come up when you mouseover the Why T&K? button on the left shows up and
> stays up. It should not load in when the page loads.

This can also be confirmed for my setup.

> 
> Third, when you mouseover the red Home image on the left, it changes to the
> red E-mail image. Also, when you mouseover the E-Mail and Map images, no
> graphic comes up.

This did not happen at all.  These graphics and their functions worked
properly in both browsers for both machines at both resolutions. Please see
my comment below concerning the MRJ.

> 
> All of these problems have us perplexed since on our PC's, everything works
> out great and looks good.

Ah, PCs, eh?  ;O)

> 
> P.S. The specs for our client's Mac that is having these problems is a G3
> processor Mac with a 17" Monitor and 800x600 resolution.
>

These specs really don't make that much difference between machines.  The
thing you want to be sure of (if they are using an OS 9 flavour) is that the
have the most current CarbonLib installed.  Also, the want to make sure they
have the most recent MRJ installed.  I believe it is 2.2.2 and can be found
at asu.info.apple.com.


As for the actual issues, I am not sure what it may be that you would have
such disparate functionality cross-plats.  Anyway, I hope this helps some.

Greg Strange