[thelist] Netscape 6 - mouseover test

[Peter-Paul Koch]

OK, as most of you will have heard Netscape 6 has severe problems with 
pre-loaded mouseovers. I've done a first test and I have no idea what to 
make of the results.

But first, I'd like to ask you to do the test and see if the results on 
your computer are the same as on mine:

1) Go to http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/preload/. WinNT users, please activate 
your Task Manager.
2) Do absolutely *nothing* while the page loads (there are 12 images of 6K 
each, so it may take a little while).
3) When the page is ready, roll your mouse over the coloured bit. Now you 
should see a mouseover that executes fairly well, just as it should do 
(maybe a bit slow).
4) Shift-Reload the page and now *don't* wait for the end of loading but 
start mousing over the images immediately. Now you should see a very slow 
and erratic mouseover. In addition, WinNT users will see that NN6 uses 
about 60% of CPU time (compared to about 15% in the first test).

If you get some wildly different results, please let me know. Linux tests 
are welcome.

So if my test results are correct, it means that mouseovers may not be 
executed *before* all of the images involved in it have been loaded. The 
only problem is, we already tried to write such a script and it helped a 
bit, but not enough.

Anyway, please do the test and let me know if you see something completely 
different.

ppk

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