[thelist] Preloading problem in IE - Dreamweaver?

[Comharsa]

At 15:33 25/07/00, you wrote:

>: When making a mouseover using Dreamweaver
>: 3.0 behaviors, it doesn't seem like the "on" images
>: are being preloaded.  When mousing over, the
>  browser makes another connection to the server
>: and pulls the "on" file down.  In Netscape, the
>: preloading works fine.
>:
>: I've encountered this problem not only with the DM
>: preload behavior, but also with custom preload
>: behaviors that don't seem to take for IE.
>:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>in ie, go to internet tools > options.  on the general tab click the
>settings button for temporary internet files.  check and see whether or not
>you've got it set to "every visit to the page".  for some reason on that
>setting images in preload scripts don't get cached.  change it to something
>else like "automatically" and it works just fine.

While that is the first suggestion I would make, there is also another 
possibility that came up on the Fireworks newsgroup recently from Tor 
Langvand who was having this problem with his host. His host admin said:

Quote:
"After consultating with server engineering, I have determined that a
incompatibility between the way our server software (Apache) writes
http headers and the way Microsoft expects to see them has resulted in
the unfortunate situation of some versions of IE being unable to cache
files downloaded from our servers. Our engineering team is in the
process of developing a fix to this situation, which, barring
additional problems, we hope to see in place by the end of this month.
Once this fix has been applied, our headers should be compatible with
IE, and your javascript roll-overs should function perfectly."
End quote

If other servers are configured the same way it could explain it.


Brian
comharsa at clara.net

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