[thelist] Advice/help on drop-down menus for IE4.5 for Mac

Michael Knepher mknepher at bluethingy.com
Thu Jan 24 00:09:12 CST 2002


On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 18:58, Andy McNabb wrote:
> I'd suggest the staff upgrade to IE5.  4.5 on the Mac is really a
> problematic browser and is very difficult to support with DHTML.
> 
> As for the alignment problem, add an onresize event to the body tag
> triggering the snap layers to realign them if the window is resized.  This
> isn't just a Mac issue as the layers are absolutely positioned and so will
> loose alignment if the window size is changed.

I believe I've fixed the resize issue. I think I'll disable the menus in
4.5 for now and see if I can come up with a good workaround later, since
we're supposed to launch this next week.


> Also for Mac IE5, you'll have to add marginheight and marginwidth attributes
> to your body tag, or the layers will misalign by a few pixels.  This is a
> known bug and the only workaround is to use those deprecated tags.
> 

Thanks for the tip. I've been planning to do that for both IE and NN 4.x
versions, but I didn't know it was an issue for Mac IE5 as well. 

> HTH,
>
> Andy
> 

Definitely. This is only the third site I've done from scratch, and the
first that's going to have a significant Mac audience, so I appreciate
the input. 

Michael





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