Bingo! It's IE6, but that was it. Excellent tip. I'd love to check out the link. But it ain't linking. joel ----- Original Message ----- From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:19 PM Subject: RE: [thelist] slow mouseovers > joel, > > ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< > > From: spinhead > > > > Can anyone tell why my mouseovers are so doggy? Seems > > like they're not preloading, but I can't see what's > > wrong. > > > > http://www.magisnetworks.com/new2002/index.html > ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< > > running ie5 or ie5.5? have it set to check for new content every visit? if > so, images don't get preloaded. that aside, there are a number of little > details askew with your rollovers. i'd strongly recommend you go some sort > of approach that uses a function and support detection. otherwise you're > going to be seriously (and needlessly) alienating any of your audience that > may not be using browsers that support the image object. > > i'd strongly recommend at least taking a look at this: > http://members.evolt.org/jeff/code/preload_n_rollover/index.cfm > > good luck, > > .jeff > > http://evolt.org/ > jeff at members.evolt.org > http://members.evolt.org/jeff/ > >